RE: IDS to DB2 conversion

I am also a strong believer that Informix is the best engine around and liked the way you said it "One of the finest relational database servers." My only hope is that IBM is smart enough, if they plan to convert all Informix users to DB2, to at least implement Informix's components into DB2. Barbara A. McCabe-Reed breed@sikorsky.com (203) 386-6431 -----Original Message----- From: andykent.bristol@virgin.net [mailto:andykent.bristol@virgin.net] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:37 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IDS to DB2 conversion I'm sure IBM has many extremely talented people who want to do the best for both products and customers. It sounds as though your best efforts are getting caught up in a debate about a wider strategy. Of course it didn't help that Informix had a tools strategy which was over ten years out of date before IBM even looked at them. But I really can't begin to describe the depth of anticlimax when Janet Perna's eagerly anticipated strategy statement basically said that "no Informix users will be forced to migrate to DB2" and that was about all. You hunted for the rest of the strategy and there simply wasn't any. One of the finest relational database servers condemned to be a legacy product at a stroke. Even without all the customer satisfaction blunders that followed, all the best endeavours by the doubtless talented and motivated people like yourself were going to go in trying to heal this wound, or even just to stop it bleeding. Andy Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-be-em.com> wrote in message news:<bv8gqb$l37$1@hanover.torolab.ibm.com>... > Andy, > > I had a lengthy post here which I just deleting. > One shall not post in anger. I'll end thsi thread here. > I do invite you though to try to take IBM's perspective, assume, just > for a minute, than IBM Executives are not lunatics, it just may make > sense if you try to take an unbiased view. > I also invite you to track back in google to teh time when Informix was > bought to verify your assumption in teh post are true. I think they are not. > > Cheers > Serge sending to informix-list

Barbara, 1. My boss is from Informix 2. I spend a good deal of my time interacting with the Informix developers who transfer technology into DB2. This is real, day to day DB2 Development work, not just words on some Infobahn. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab