Re: Informix: Please buy Borland

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:01:22 GMT, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: [Interesting comments on Informix and Sybase deleted] > >As to Dr. Codd's version 2 RDBMS there are too many faults and >arbitrary statements in his definition (see discussion on this issue >by mr. C.J.Date a year or two ago in Datbase Programming & Design >magazine for further info on this). Date is wrong on nulls; Codd is right. > I doubt that Informix, or any >other RDBMS vendors are particularly interested. With the Universal >Server Informix have also moved far beyond this "spesification". I doubt it. As a DBA, developer, and analyst working with end users, I have felt sorely the lack of many of the features he specified. >Having heard Stonebreaker, and his opinons on database design, I think >further developments will go in other and better directions. How about some specifics? --- Richard A. Schulman // For email reply, be sure to remove the two anti-spamming // asterisks that will appear in the "to" field of your reply.