Re: OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix

Posted in 2004

Captain Pedantic — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:58:34 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Jim Jordan" <wjjordan@nortel.ca> wrote in message news:cin371$2lv$1@zcars0v6.ca.nortel.com... > In article <2r10d8F14mpqtU1@uni-berlin.de>, > Captain Pedantic <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> wrote: > > And for John's question: IBM is like a cat. You can't tell it > anything. It has to discover things by itself. How long it takes to > learn something is entirely up to the cat. Yes, a very fat, very lazy old cat. Only without the same get-up-and-go nature. > Unfortunately, that discovery is only made by small pockets of people > working directly with the (compared against DB2) small number of > Informix customers. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! .......