RE: An Informix Positive Point
"The one thing that you missed was that Janet tried to kill Informix via "Death by 1,000 cuts"." Gumby, Why do you keep beating Janet up???? She didn't act alone. There were a lot of other IBMer's during the dark times that were trying to kill Informix too. Heck, for all I know you may have been part of the faithful flock trying to kill it... How about Sharon Thompson, remember her??? Bottom line, we all remember it was nasty, I remember it well, I lived it first hand, and hated it with all my guts and to this day I hate IBM for it. Jerry "Death to DB2" --- Ian Michael Gumby <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Mark, > > What makes you think that any discussion about IDS > isn't positive? > The one thing that you missed was that Janet tried > to kill Informix via "Death by 1,000 cuts". > The worst thing she did was ruin a great SAP > relationship. (Oh wait now we have Serge getting > ready to plug that SAP and DB2 run great!) > > The fact that IDS withstood Janet et al's abuse is a > testimony to the product. The fact that the numbers > are constantly increasing in licenses sold and > renewed without IBM's S&D's lead is also a great > point. > > You also have to give some credit to IBM's IDS team > leads. Using the IIUG to get the message out while > they can't is also a good thing. > > I think that its important that I and others expose > the warts of IBM so that IBM gets the message. > > The only problem is that you can lead a horse to > water but you can't make him drink. By this I mean I > told a couple of people that they needed to change > the sales comp plan, and set some goals that are IDS > based for the FLMs of the IT Specialists as part of > their PBCs. (Only those within IBM will grok > that...) To the best of my knowledge, that didn't > happen. > > I also opened the door to one of my clients. What > happens there is up to my client and IBM. > (One has to ask if IBM's IM pillar is sending people > to JavaOne as well as present at JavaOne?...) > > You want to make IDS great again? Then create the > next 4GL that can allow people to whip out those Mom > and Pop apps... > > From: mark.scranton@gmail.com> Subject: An > Informix Positive Point> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 > 08:50:36 -0800> To: informix-list@iiug.org> > I've > decided to start tossing "good news" into the mix > out here. There> seems to be plenty of bad, so I > thought I'd try to tip the scales> every so > often...> > Just interviewed 3 candidates for a > brand-new (not replacing anyone)> senior Informix > DBA position at a very, very successful company on > the> east coast. They are growing, and have 3 IFMX > engines - two on IDS 10> (one primary, one secondary > HDR), and one on IDS 11. Primary> production engine > is about 3TB, and the DW engine is 8 TB - all on> > IDS.> > Mark Scranton> Xtivia Inc.> > www.markscranton.com> > _______________________________________________> > Informix-list mailing list> Informix-list@iiug.org> > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > _________________________________________________________________ > Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need > your Hotmail'-get your "fix". > http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx>; _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs