Re: IDS 10 Download?

Posted in 2005

nobody — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:20:14 -0600 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Data Goob wrote: > Are you sure you're part of the IIUG--the International Informix User's > Group? > They never admit they're wrong, so I'm not sure you're part of the same > group. > Damn peculiar that they let you in. 8o) > Sigh. You've been hanging around Stu too long. ;-) > Anyway, it is nice to see the downloads without the crippling and other > crap that makes it a less-than-real-deal. It would be cool too to get > XPS as > a download, but I guess they don't really want people to use it. We got > the > same functionality in DB2 EEE, but would be interesting to see the > difference > if any in performance between DB2 and XPS. Of course since I don't have > XPS > I wouldn't know if it's improved or not. > Thats a loaded question. ;-) I think what you can expect to see is similar functionality across the database offerings. Think of all the possibilities... merging the code lines may be a nasty problem, but taking the functional specs of certain features and rewriting them for a different architecture isn't as difficult. ;-) But hey, what do I know? - ;-)