Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

As has been the pattern with your appends, they are complete misrepresentations and demonstrate that you are terribly misinformed. You need an IBM software briefing. Technology from Informix products is being integrated and shared within the IBM Data Management family. Give it time. Larry Edelstein Neil Truby wrote: > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message > news:1063586822.467530@yasure... > Neil Truby wrote: > > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message > news:1063580675.445761@yasure... > > Unfortunately not enough of them for Informix to remain viable as an > > independent. > > We'll never know, will we? > IBM made the Informix shareholders they couldn't refuse, and Informix's > independence was gone. > Certainly the company had been struggling for some years. > But it's highly arguable whether Informix *customers* have benefited from > the IBM takeover. Or IBM in fact. > > >> Well IBM certainly got their hands on some good people and some good > technology. In that sense they > benefited ... > > Sorry to go on about this, and I sense we're discussing theis point in > circles, but there's no benefit to be accrued simply by acquiring the good > people and technology and then doing nothing with it .....

Larry "How to win friends and influence people, IBM-stylee" Edelstein wrote: > As has been the pattern with your appends, they are complete > misrepresentations and demonstrate that you are terribly misinformed. You > need an IBM software briefing. Technology from Informix products is being > integrated and shared within the IBM Data Management family. Give it time. Hear that, Neil? You need an IBM Software Briefing. I'm sure you've never had one, especially not given the "special relationship" between the IIUG Board of Directors and IBM. -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ''' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche