RE: Oracle ?

Can you post a picture? If that is allowed...Hmm, I should know this. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Mark Townsend > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:12 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Oracle ? > > Captain Pedantic wrote: > > > > > > > Definitely true with DB2. It can heal itself you know. > > And it has a single code base. > > > > > So I have to ask - does anybody actually grok IBM Marketing ? > > As some of you may know, IBM inherited the old Informix bill > board on the 101 right outside the Oracle campus in Redwood Shores. > > When Informix had it we saw some really funny adverts during > the Billboard wars - classics such as "Warning, Dinosaur > Crossing" and "You have just passed Oracle (and so have we)" > etc etc (Google for Informix and Billboard and Wars for some > background) > > Then Informix hit us with the famous "Way to Web". We all > yawned, but at least Informix has an excuse. > > Since the takeover, we have had IBM's Codernaughts, > Middleware is Everywhere, and Linus as a Child. We all went WTF ? > > The latest has really go me perplexed. The bill board is > divided into two halves. One half (left hand side) has a > 'Closed' sign on it. The other half (right hand side) has a > "Come in we are open" sign on it (like you see in the doors > of shops, etc). > > In the middle it has the IBM logo, with 'Trapped' extending > off to the left, and "Liberated" extending of to the right > hand side. Trapped = Closed, Liberated = Open, etc etc. > > That's it. > > I don't get it - well, I get it, but it's incredibly facile, > and I just don't think anybody driving down the 101 will believe it. > > Did we just discover were Informix marketeers went to die ? > > > sending to informix-list