Re: Informix beats Oracle

Posted in 2007

Mark Townsend — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:53:41 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> IIRC you said the same in 2001. You even said that this > ng will no longer exist in 5 yrs. Well - there has been a 70% decline in the average number of posts per month on this newsgroup when comparing 2001 with 2007 YTD

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Andrew Ford — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:59:50 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

comp.databases.oracle.server has experienced a similar decline of 50% when comparing 2001 to 2007 YTD. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Informix beats Oracle > >> IIRC you said the same in 2001. You even said that this >> ng will no longer exist in 5 yrs. > > Well - there has been a 70% decline in the average number of posts per > month on this newsgroup when comparing 2001 with 2007 YTD > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

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Neil Truby — Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:44:27 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:4686ED05.5060106@sbcglobal.net... > >> IIRC you said the same in 2001. You even said that this >> ng will no longer exist in 5 yrs. > > Well - there has been a 70% decline in the average number of posts per > month on this newsgroup when comparing 2001 with 2007 YTD Whatever happened to the bloke who used to pop up uninvited but welcome with a digest of the previous month's cdi posting statistics ...? While I'm at it, whatever happened to: DB2 Arrowhead Althea and Donna? Blakeys Rob Newman Dead Like Me etc....