Re: IDS to DB2 conversion

Posted in 2004

Captain Pedantic — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:41:29 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"malcolm.iiug" <malcolm.iiug@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:bv8hpm$pne$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > I am regularly looking at the employment situation. I see lots of jobs for > Orrible, lots for Squeal, and even jobs for slybase, but very few for DB2 or > Informix. That is why people aren't migrating from Informix to DB2. People aren't migrating from Informix to DB2 because there are few job postings for either product?? > We complain a lot in this newsgroup at the lack of publicity about Informix, > but from what I can see they are publicising Informix as well as they > publicise DB2. Have you got your head up your arse? Do you not see the full-page ads for DB2 in Computer Weekly every week for example? > People still perceive IBM as the > mainframe database company and DB2 as the mainframe database product. So true.