RE: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS?

It is simple enough to "borrow" a full version of IDS from a colleague for development purposes. My guess is that this happens pretty often if a developer really needs full functionality for POC purposes. If I am in the market for a new BMW, the dealer does not remove some of the features of the car before I take it on a test drive. The other database vendors from MySQL to Oracle seems to understand this. The concept is simple - Evaluate, play with, and develop against the free database and when you deploy you get support, updates, and legitimacy when your customer licenses it. Fred -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of DA Morgan Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:41 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS? Carsten Haese wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:59 -0700, Tool wrote: >> Actually you said directly that I certainly didn't need more than 5 >> connections, and didn't need replication working. > > Please feel free to prove me wrong. I will now ask you for the third > time: How do the "alterations" in the IIUG version restrict your > ability to develop an IDS application? > > In other words: What kind of application are you developing that > requires more than 5 concurrent sessions and working replication > during development? Personally, and again speaking from an Oracle perspective, I can't think of any application I would ever want to develop that wouldn't involve more than 5 concurrent sessions and working replication. But your question misses the point. Wouldn't it benefit the Informix user community if the fully functional product were available? Surely those interested in putting Informix into production are no more likely to be thieves than those putting other products into production. It seems to me the issue here is trust. And the message coming through loudly and clearly is that IBM does not trust those who use its products to act with integrity. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

Fred Pratt wrote: > It is simple enough to "borrow" a full version of IDS from a colleague for > development purposes. My guess is that this happens pretty often if a > developer really needs full functionality for POC purposes. If I am in the > market for a new BMW, the dealer does not remove some of the features of the > car before I take it on a test drive. The other database vendors from MySQL > to Oracle seems to understand this. The concept is simple - Evaluate, play > with, and develop against the free database and when you deploy you get > support, updates, and legitimacy when your customer licenses it. > > Fred In my community we frown on creating legal liability by violating licenses and it is remarkably get students to sign an NDA for what they are about to receive in a lecture hall. <g> -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org