flagship sunk

Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's stepbrother. The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns.

Jürgen Buck schrieb: > Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's > stepbrother. > The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ > > Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. No, not everywhere: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/mobility (I check this tomorrow again...) Regards, try_and_err

J'rgen Buck said: > > Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's > stepbrother. > The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ > > Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. 'When they said "flagship", I didn't realise they meant the Belgrano.' -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > 'When they said "flagship", I didn't realise they meant the Belgrano.' > Sailing in the other direction and shot from behind - gotcha!

J'rgen Buck wrote: > Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's > stepbrother. > The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ > > Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. Such pretty words I've had written to me in protest by IBM employees. Yet actions speak far louder than words. IBM continues to demonstrate that its Informix customers should start looking for a lifeboat. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

J'rgen Buck wrote: > Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's > stepbrother. > The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ > > Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. > I don't see 'pure oltp' just embedded. "Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is IBM's flagship database for industrial-strength, embedded computing. " What were they thinking? -WW-

On 24 Jan 2006 12:09:03 -0800, "J'rgen Buck" <juergenb@buck-consulting.de> wrote: >Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's >stepbrother. >The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: >http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ > >Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. I noticed that, too . . . While there is the other place where "flagship" exists, this one was the most noticeable to me. Either the removal was an oversight (marketing got carried away and it will be put back soon) or there's something else going on behind the scenes . . . . . I'm interested to see what IBM says about that one . . . . . any takers? Christine . . . . ? Mark . . . . . ? Madison . . . . . ? JWC