Re: Customers ARE staying with IBM Informix

Posted in 2003

Fernando Nunes — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:46:36 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

WW Informix Marketing wrote: > ALL: > > I can positively assert that according to a blind independent study of a > statistically significant group of customers and business partners > around the world, they are surely NOT migrating away from Informix in > droves. In fact, 80% of respondents, in this survey which has been > conducted and re-validated over several quarters, state that they are > staying with IBM. Of those, a measurable percent have considered DB2; > in many cases, that consideration is due to a particular ISV application > that works with DB2 UDB, not that IBM is forcing them to look. > ISV dropping support for Informix is caused by IBM position... and these are the customers which will first look for Oracle or SQL Server. Most of them already have experience in one of these products, so why risk an unknown one? The ones which have custom applications on top of Informix obviously see no reasons for imediate change to another DB. Regards.