OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix
A non-technical thread: a UK Informix professional asks whether IBM actually intends to market and sell Informix, worried by a shrinking job market, customers moving to Oracle/SQL Server, and a rumoured 2010 end date. No official IBM statement is given. Respondents offer anecdotal reassurance: a reseller notes the ICON programme, the dropping of a 'lead with DB2' message to direct sales, trade-up discounts and an extended end-of-life for IDS v7 after IIUG lobbying, while an OEM customer says their IBM account team plans to lead with Informix for turnkey OEM systems. No definitive resolution is recorded.
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Hi All , Does anyone know if IBM is planning on actively selling Informix? Reason I ask is seems like the job market in the UK for Informix is dying out and as much as I am a committed die hard Informixer I need to pay the bills. To boot seems businesses migrate to Oracle/MSSQL if given a chance. This is not a rant mail just need to find out what plans IBM have for Informix past 2010 date currently mentioned (that's the date I have heard so far). Any feed back would be good especially from the IBMers. TIA Traveller
I've seen evidence recently, such as the ICON programme, that IBM are trying to do more with Informix, and have heard that the message to the direct sales team is no longer "lead with DB2". As an IBM reseller I have never received any such instruction to favour DB2 over Informix anyway, and so have not received contrary instructions either. Looking at the various things we get from IBM's many ParterWorld programmes, there is far, far more DB2 news than Informix, but that always was so. There have been a number of announcements recently that benefit Informix customers: there is a discount on trade-ups to IDS at present, and IDS v7 has had its end-of-life extended (after much lobbying by the IIUG). My take is that recent promotional activity around Informix is very promising. Will we ever see adverts for Informix, or see it promoted to the decision -makers in organisiations in the same way as DB2 is? Well, what do you think .....? "Traveller2003" <vavavoom_th14@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:6e21e513.0409170305.1c4ca43@posting.google.com... > Hi All , > > Does anyone know if IBM is planning on actively selling Informix? > Reason I ask is seems like the job market in the UK for Informix is > dying out and as much as I am a committed die hard Informixer I need > to pay the bills. To boot seems businesses migrate to Oracle/MSSQL if > given a chance. > > This is not a rant mail just need to find out what plans IBM have for > Informix past 2010 date currently mentioned (that's the date I have > heard so far). Any feed back would be good especially from the IBMers. > > TIA > > Traveller
In article <2r04ibF14f12eU1@uni-berlin.de>, Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >I've seen evidence recently, such as the ICON programme, that IBM are trying >to do more with Informix, and have heard that the message to the direct >sales team is no longer "lead with DB2". As an IBM reseller I have never >received any such instruction to favour DB2 over Informix anyway, and so >have not received contrary instructions either. Our account team (Canadian OEM) has indicated that they plan on leading with Informix for OEM applications, because it's so easy to drop into a turnkey system. IBM was surprised by the loyalty of the Informix user base, and they are starting to realise that Informix was really a well-hidden gem. Cheers, Jim -- W. Jim Jordan, Nortel Networks 5050 40 Street NE, Calgary, AB T3J 4P8 Canada wjjordan at nortelnetworks dot com +1 403 769 2590 Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Nortel Networks.