Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company:IThought Informix was Dead?

Posted in 2006

Summary

Banter in a thread about Informix being dead: Art Kagel mentioned a military branch with Informix on every base and no DBAs; Neil Truby and Jean Georges Perrin joked about the wording. Art explained there were no DBAs because the instances had not crashed in years. No technical question.

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Topics: Server Administration

Neil Truby — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:29:10 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:45872C40.30901@bloomberg.net... > How about every base of one branch of a certain major country's military > with an Informix instance and no DBAs. Er, I'm not sure I like the implications of that one! Unless it's France of course ;-)

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Jean Georges Perrin — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:23:14 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Art said a "major country"... > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Neil Truby > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 00:29 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request > ofCompany:IThought Informix was Dead? > > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:45872C40.30901@bloomberg.net... > > > How about every base of one branch of a certain major country's military > > with an Informix instance and no DBAs. > > Er, I'm not sure I like the implications of that one! > Unless it's France of course ;-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

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Neil Truby — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:25:42 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Jean Georges Perrin" <jgp@jgp.net> wrote in message news:mailman.666.1166624073.29126.informix-list@iiug.org... > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- >> bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Neil Truby >> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 00:29 >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request >> ofCompany:IThought Informix was Dead? >> >> "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message >> news:45872C40.30901@bloomberg.net... >> >> > How about every base of one branch of a certain major country's >> > military >> > with an Informix instance and no DBAs. >> >> Er, I'm not sure I like the implications of that one! >> Unless it's France of course ;-) >> > Art said a "major country"... Sorry, I read it as "major pain in the arse"!

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Art S. Kagel — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:40:03 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby wrote: > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:45872C40.30901@bloomberg.net... > > >>How about every base of one branch of a certain major country's military >>with an Informix instance and no DBAs. > > > Er, I'm not sure I like the implications of that one! > Unless it's France of course ;-) > > 8-0> No DBAs because the beasties haven't crashed once in many years. They just keep on running. Art S. Kagel