Re: informix market share

On 2005-11-27, DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote: > rkusenet wrote: > >> Add to it, IDS runs on 20 out of 25 top grocery chains in North America, >> and about 80% of all retail shops like Wal-Mart, Sears etc. > > And how many of those 20 grocery chains and 80% of retail shops are > also running SQL Server and Oracle? > > Seems to me this is rather creative use of statistics. No doubt > Microsoft can similarly claim that 100% of them use MS Access. There's also the problem of how you slice up the numbers? I have lived or worked in most parts of the country and I can think of only of a handful of major chains. The 20 could easily be all of the small fry. There's a southwest regional chain in particular that's cheap to a fault. My own personal experience with Informix in the retail space is that they're moving away from it and are very distressed with how IBM has treated the product. It's viewed as a dead end that needs to be migrated away from. -- Negligence will never equal intent, no matter how you attempt to distort reality to do so. This is what separates ||| the real butchers from average Joes (or Fritzes) caught up in / | \\ events not in their control. Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com