Re: Informix Software is Finished...

Few try to spread FUD with so little background. Too bad you lost on your stocks. May be it was deserved with this kind of "research". I would also be carefull with the products from the company you seem to work at. "boris" <bdNOSPAM@movil.com> wrote: :I used Illustra a few years ago ( as applications programmer ) and wasn't :impressed at all. About 6 months ago I heard from a friend who just left :Informix that Universal Server is in very bad shape ( not working ). :Personally I don't believe in superior Informix technology which for some :obscure reasons just doesn't sell. What they definitely have are some :academic guys who make a lot of noise; out of nothing looks like. Will :Microsoft buy it? Well, why should it buy inferior technology? :BTW their lies to stockholders is part of the same story: they cannot :compete and fix the numbers instead. :A few months ago I was stupid enough to take Informix hype seriously ( :during their noisy developer's conference ) and bought their stock. Next :time I'll know better. : :Boris Dynin :Movil : :Redmond is one of very few places where one can get software of reasonable :quality nowdays. Not something everybody would agree on. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org