Re: Informix Positive Post #2

InDeep wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: >> InDeep wrote: >> >>> IBM is a multi-billion dollar company with dipshits running the Informix >>> marketing, probably because opportunistic legacy Informix twits told IBM >>> don't worry, it'll all be ok, we'll take care of the marketing. >> >> IBM did not become the large and impressive organization it is through >> incompetence. Why is it so hard to accept that IBM might be following >> a well planned strategy? ... and be executing it without distraction. > > Because history has proven otherwise. It is clearly, intuitively obvious > that if IBM were actually following a strategy it would be articulated in > various forms of media and marketing. Where in Microsoft's strategy docs does it state that their intention, in purchasing Fox, was to kill it? -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

DA Morgan wrote: > InDeep wrote: >> DA Morgan wrote: >>> InDeep wrote: >>> >>>> IBM is a multi-billion dollar company with dipshits running the >>>> Informix >>>> marketing, probably because opportunistic legacy Informix twits told >>>> IBM >>>> don't worry, it'll all be ok, we'll take care of the marketing. >>> >>> IBM did not become the large and impressive organization it is through >>> incompetence. Why is it so hard to accept that IBM might be following >>> a well planned strategy? ... and be executing it without distraction. >> >> Because history has proven otherwise. It is clearly, intuitively obvious >> that if IBM were actually following a strategy it would be articulated in >> various forms of media and marketing. > > Where in Microsoft's strategy docs does it state that their intention, > in purchasing Fox, was to kill it? Don't you ever get tired?... You spend the last seven years saying Informix will die... What happened in that time? 3 major versions releases, each one with bigger changes than the previous... Only minor versions were discontinued... Version 7 is still supported (not that I like this fact). In the same time Oracle has discontinued more versions than Informix... And since we keep off-topic, what will it do to BEA?... Obviously it will promote it and enhance it... Your comments could benefit this group, if we were comparing features, or they could benefit Oracle, if you still had any credibility... Keep on the nice work... Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...