Re: Informix left standing

Steven Hauser wrote: > > My immortal words: > >> > >>The Datablades offered by third party and Informix are a type of app are > >>they not? > > John Carlson reply: > >If you run the engine that supports them. I've always thought that the > >DataBlades were only add-ons to the engine. > > HAH, I say: > So the myriad Oracle apps that enrich Mcneely but do not run on a better > engine such as Informix or DB2 are but puny add-ons by that logic. > Don't know that much (yet) about Oracle. We have a new system coming in that runs Oracle. > Yet you are correct, they are 'add-ons' to the engine. They may not be > full applications but by creating 'objects' these things begin to resemble > 'applications' as the methods and interfaces that are defined by the > objects correspond to business rules, application logic, etc. > > I thinks the CEO of Informix says what he thinks the audience wants > to hear at the time of his media events. But Informix still seems > unable to sell a woodchipper to a serial killer from Brainerd. Is that sound marketing? <G> John Carlson Informix DBA WH Smith, Inc.