Re: Informix stock tanks on bad news.

cdr@xteam.co.at (Chris Drauch) wrote: :Mike Segel wrote :> :>Got a phone call this morning from my Broker. :>Informix stock tanked under 10 due to reports of :>poor sales across the entire product line. :> :>I think that some of this falls on a poor product line definition :>and restructuring of the products. : :+ By Kourosh Karimkhany :+ :+ "It's a classic product transition," said Charles Phillips, software analyst :+ at investment bank Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York. "They're trying to :+ sell a new product before it's ready to be sold and they're not concentrating :+ on the old product." : :I just hope they wake up now :) It truly seems as if they have told their salesforce too much about the Universal Server so they couldn't consentrate on the currently available engines. Although it's a "classic product transition" it shouldn't have had to happen for a software company. With their new tools strategy and some consentration of efforts on the engines they are however better positioned than any of their competitors. The hope is that they can come up with a strategy to sell the engines in volume. That's where the database market seems to be going now. With inovative thinking and daring marketing they have every oportunity. 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