Re: IIUG - New engine survey, your input needed
Clem, I should point out that the trial lawyer's rule "don't ask a question unless you already know the answer" applies to my notes. I'm an Informix user, professional-services subcontractor, and stockholder. I think that Informix is STILL managing to find lots of opportunities to harm themselves. There's the confusing multiplicity of "Dynamic Servers" -- I remember Michael Stonebraker at the '96 Informix conference criticizing Oracle's "universal server" as being a grab-bag of engines under a single name, and then Informix marketing goes and copies pages from Oracle's book -- and there's the message sent by making only 7.30 available free to developers that 9.1x still isn't good enough or important enough. Seth > At 12:02 PM 17-06-98 -0400, Seth Grimes wrote: > >Clem Akins writes: > > > >> Your wish is granted! In version 7.3, Informix accomplished the goal > >> of merging the 7 and 9 code streams. With the coming 9.2 release, this > >> unified code stream will clearly demonstrate Informix's seriousness about > >> OR technology. I invite you to attend Informix's "9.2 Features" class, > >> which will be available to the public with the General Availability of > >> the product. > > > > So are you saying that 9.2 is a superset of 7.3, that everything > >in 7.3 is in 9.2? > > I was intentionally vague on that point. You must be very careful > about differentiating my views from the official dogma. Officially, the > relationship of 9.2 to 7.3 has not been formally defined. > > >From what I can see at this early date though, the answer is "yes", that > 9.2 is a superset of 7.3, and is the upgrade path from 7.x. > > > When will 9.2 be generally available and when it is, will Informix > >distributed free Windows NT licenses as the company's now doing for 7.30? > > Very early projections call for 9.2 to be generally available in Q4. The > press release pertaining to the free NT licenses indicates that upgrades > are included. > > >And do you have any explanation why free 9.14 licenses aren't available? > > No. > > _____________________________________________________________ > Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) Menlo Park x5937 > Customer Course Development Manager Informix Software, Inc > Last seen: Watching a sunrise, beach camping in California > -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Internet & database design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes