Re: Informix running on Linux
Boris Benko wrote: > > > If Phil White wants to do something that will shake the ground he'll > > invest in developers and DBAs. Putting Informix 7.x on Linux will get > > a lot of free press he couldn't buy with all the money from Oracle. > > Besides if you really want to sell Universal Server, let go of 7.x. > > If you have more people using 7.x, they can migrate their experience to > > Universal Server, thus more momentum in the market. Who knows, if 7.x > > were on Linux, some of the Linux community might build some really > > cool tools for it. They're a busy bunch... > > > > The whole point is not getting a lot of free press. Informix wants to > earn some money... But could be that possible with Linux which comes > for free? I think that's possible... Come on Informix folks, figure it > out!!! > > =boris > > -- > ============================================================================ > Boris Benko, dipl.ing. | E-mail: Boris.Benko@telekom.si > Telekom Slovenije, PE Murska Sobota | B.Benko@s-gms.ms.edus.si > Senior Prog./Sys admin./Informatik | Boris.Benko@uni-mb.si > Slu'ba za informatiko | Phone: +386 69 31 676 > | +386 69 37 800 21 > ============================================================================ Boris, Welcome to the group... :-) In the world of UNIX there's this really powerful concept of 'indirection'. It's those little > or < or >> or << or 2>&1 or ... This concept transcends the understanding of computers, it's a natural law that provides predictable results if understood, and used, no matter what industry, or activity. It's taking apparently little operators to move apparently large objects. This concept is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Leverage. It's what makes the impossible possible. Not exactly rocket science, and I'm not the first person to think of it. The concept is as old as the hills. Take Informix for example. Informix can use the built-in SELLing of developers and DBAs as LEVERAGE in their sales. But they need to do this by not trying to grab the money directly out of their pockets. These are the people who ultimately SELL Informix. These are the people that ultimately USE their product. Informix is being rude. They have let money go to their head, and forget their friends. It's rude to stand in front of someone with your hand out, and say, "Give me the money!". It's much more polite and important to sit down, have a drink, talk about things, and then humbly accept the money from your friend, who hands it to you without you having to ask. You carry on, and laugh about the good times, and have a drink to remember it. In your heart, having taken the money, your head is bowed, in grateful acceptance of the money, and thanking a force greater than yourself that it happended to you. You got the money from your friend without having to ask. This is a true friend. Informix is a rude dog right now. They have been like car salesmen, in a bad part of town, standing smugly out on the street, selling cars. But this is not where they started. They were willing to be like an old friend. They were good. When I used their 4GL, I knew that the company that represented this product was of an advanced mind. This was a company that understood innovation and software engineering can be profitable on the smaller systems. They still have the advanced mind, but now are thinking only of money first. Soon they will lose the very friends that got them where they are today. It will not take much to move someone to a different product if the competitor is more sensitive to the market. You can say this about ANY industry. Take fish for example. If a man shows me a better fish for the same money as a man with a bad fish, what am I going to pick? People like me are despised by Informix now in favor of big companies, where holding your hand out is not rude. It's easy money, and software goes Vegas. Let's shine our shoes, slick back our hair, and get down to business. Developers? Awe, we don't need 'em. They gotta pay too. -- Indirect leveraging is what could make Informix squash the competition, and make more sales than they could ever imagine. You may wonder why a developer would give away tools. It's the same concept, that of indirection, returning to that developer greater rewards than just standing in front of a man with his hand out. I've already paid for Informix software, with my loyalty. Now it's Informix's turn. -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.mindspring.com/~tschaefe