RE: Migrating to Oracle <sigh>
Actually.... Peoplesoft is the vendor that was selected. One of the reasons they were considered early on was that they told us they supported Informix. When it came down to it, they changed their mind. So... while Peoplesoft *used* to support Informix, they no longer do for new sales. Brian McLaughlin Administrative Computing George Fox University (503) 554-2587 -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Ian Michael Gumby Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:22 AM To: damorgan@psoug.org; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Migrating to Oracle <sigh> Daniel, I guess this means that you've lost your argument. When you attack the messenger and not the message, it means that you can no longer debate the issue. Note: When we poke fun of you at your expense, its not that we can't defend our position in any hypothetical argument, but that welll... you're just an easy target. ;-) With respect to Serge's position, what he does on his own time and is within his employment agreement, is ok. With resepct to your position about Oracle... Nope. They will support IDS for the time being. Why? Because their customers (meaning peoplesoft) are on IDS and that they want to stay on IDS. As I mentioned before, if they were to stop supporting IDS and there are customers that wish to remain on IDS, then they will most likely be sued. With respect to Serge's point, Oracle made a decision a long time ago to support a single platform. Why? because it was cheaper to maintain a common platform. Informix was heading down this road with their project Arrowhead. The difference between IBM and Oracle is that IBM acquired a second platform which frankly is better than their bastardized mainframe platform. (But hey! I'm an IDS bigot talking to an IDS crowd. ;-) The smartest thing that IBM has done is to cross pollenate ?sp? both platforms such that both platforms will excel. So why don't you give it a rest on this topic? >From: DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> >Serge Rielau wrote: > > DA Morgan wrote: > >> That said ... it is highly unlikely Informix will be supported because > >> as I understand it IBM made the decision not to make the required > >> changes to Informix to support them: Only to DB2. > > Huh? Certainly nothing of the like has crossed my desk. > >Which part of your official cv is not accurate? >(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0602riela u) > >As I understand it, and please correct me if I am worng on this, >members of the DB2 Solutions Development Team do not normally engage >in discussions with Oracle about Informix. Actually as I understand >it you are not involved in discussions between IBM and Oracle on >anything. > >As I see it you are part of the problem in that you are one of those >whose vested interest is to compete against Informix. >-- >Daniel A. Morgan >_______________________________________________ >Informix-list mailing list >Informix-list@iiug.org >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ Don't miss your chance to WIN $10,000 and other great prizes from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0540003042mrt/direct/01/