Re: SE at EOL?

Posted in 2004

Obnoxio The Clown — Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:12:00 +0100 (BST) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Mark Townsend said: > Francisco Roldan wrote: > >> >> Right now we are considering migrating to MySql. >> > > > Something along the lines of fat, fire and frying pans with lots of > moving about comes to mind. Could be worse. He could be thinking of going to Oracle. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list

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Mark Townsend — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:09:49 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > Could be worse. He could be thinking of going to Oracle. :o) Well he's come to the right place then. Little evidence of any sort of thought here >:-P

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Data Goob — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:23:14 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

This is a bit more interesting in the same vein: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630856,00.asp Another first for Informix! 8-) Mark Townsend wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> Could be worse. He could be thinking of going to Oracle. :o) > > > > Well he's come to the right place then. Little evidence of any sort of > thought here >:-P >

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Mark Townsend — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 06:17:53 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Data Goob wrote: > This is a bit more interesting in the same vein: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630856,00.asp > > Another first for Informix! > Consider the source. Gotta love the statement "Within the database market, MySQL AB's open-source database is eating up market share and mind share. When Forrester surveyed companies six months ago, it found that two-thirds of companies are using open source. Of those, half are using MySQL." Pure tabloid reporting. It's called turkey quoting. Even the French paparazzi have a little more style.