Re: SE at EOL?

Posted in 2004

Summary

Short banter under the subject about SE reaching end of life. Obnoxio The Clown and Mark Townsend joked, and Data Goob linked an eWeek article on MySQL market share. Mark Townsend dismissed its claim about open-source use as tabloid reporting. No technical answer about SE's status was given.

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Topics: General Discussion

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.