It just wouldn't be an end of qtr without this news...
"That leaves Software Group, which had three times the growth of IBM overall, up 6 per cent to $5.3bn, and that was after losing about 1 per cent of revenue through the divestiture of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software to Dassault Systemes and a pretty bad showing by its Lotus groupware products, which declined by 6 per cent. IBM's WebSphere middleware had 17 per cent growth in the second quarter, with 7 per cent growth in the Information Management line (DB2, IMS, and other database products). The Tivoli systems management line of software products kept pace with WebSphere, rising 18 per cent, and the Rational development tools squeaked out 1 per cent revenue growth." Taken from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/19/ibm_q2_2010_numbers/ So I am wondering what was the percentages of IDS? Was it 'double digit' growth or was it around 7% which would put it in parity to DB2? Curious minds want to know... -G _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2
>> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.339.1279654162.1071.informix-list@iiug.org... "That leaves Software Group, which had three times the growth of IBM overall, up 6 per cent to $5.3bn, and that was after losing about 1 per cent of revenue through the divestiture of its product lifecycle management (PLM) software to Dassault Systemes and a pretty bad showing by its Lotus groupware products, which declined by 6 per cent. IBM's WebSphere middleware had 17 per cent growth in the second quarter, with 7 per cent growth in the Information Management line (DB2, IMS, and other database products). The Tivoli systems management line of software products kept >> pace with WebSphere, rising 18 per cent, and the Rational development tools squeaked out 1 per cent revenue growth." I was a bit depressed by this bit ... " ...with 7 per cent growth in the Information Management line (DB2, IMS, and other database products)". Jesus! Not even mentioned in a string that mentions IMS! This puts me in mind of the bit in Spinal Tap when the band members ironically consoles themselves that "At least we got higher billing than the puppets". Except Informix gets lower billing than the puppets ... :-(
> From: theharlequin36@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: It just wouldn't be an end of qtr without this news... > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:56:11 +0100 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > >> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >> news:mailman.339.1279654162.1071.informix-list@iiug.org... > "That leaves Software Group, which had three times the growth of IBM > overall, up 6 per cent to $5.3bn, and that was after losing about 1 per cent > of revenue through the divestiture of its product lifecycle management (PLM) > software to Dassault Systemes and a pretty bad showing by its Lotus > groupware products, which declined by 6 per cent. IBM's WebSphere middleware > had 17 per cent growth in the second quarter, with 7 per cent growth in the > Information Management line (DB2, IMS, and other database products). The > Tivoli systems management line of software products kept >> pace with > WebSphere, rising 18 per cent, and the Rational development tools squeaked > out 1 per cent revenue growth." > > I was a bit depressed by this bit ... > > " ...with 7 per cent growth in the Information Management line (DB2, IMS, > and other database products)". > > Jesus! Not even mentioned in a string that mentions IMS! This puts me in > mind of the bit in Spinal Tap when the band members ironically consoles > themselves that "At least we got higher billing than the puppets". > > Except Informix gets lower billing than the puppets ... :-( > Meat Puppets? http://www.google.com/search?q=Meat+Puppets&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a :-P Ok, back to the serious thing... You're Bernie Spang, Mr. Marketing mouth piece extraordinaire ... IDS, IMS, what's the diff? I mean they both start with the letter I and should be back stage to DB2 since DB2 used to be the name of the pillar and well, it was "Mommy's favorite" ... (Janet has left the building but nobody apparently told that to Bernie...) Now for those who feel that I'm picking unfairly on Bernie, you're absolutely right. And for that I apologize. After all, with a company that employs over 250K people word wide, there's bound to be a lot more wankers like Bernie who only think of DB2 as IBM's database product and forgets that there's a lot more to IM than DB2.... One could hope that IBM has finally gotten a clue. Albeit a tad too late to get things moving again. For those who wonder why Gumby's been so quiet... well, I'm trying to find a Priest who'll perform last rights to a data base product and spending time in the Clouds w Hadoop and HBase. What's interesting is that IBM has even tried to jump on that bandwagon but their offering falls short of anything representing their sticking their little toe in the water. (And yes, customers do notice this...) But hey! What do I know? I'm already certified on Cloudera's release and have a pretty good feel for the potential of the technology. Not that its going to replace the traditional RDBMs but that well... even with the MySQL followers split, they still have more market mind share than DB2 and IDS combined. Like I said... what do I know? ;-) (Note to Jerry K. You really should pop in to Chicago, stretch your legs and get out of Lenexa. Chicago is really a lovely city, except when they film the transformers and make a mess of Michigan Ave.) -G _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2