Re: Thinking Green.. yeah I know ... ironic... :-)

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >> On 30 Oct, 20:38, Obnoxio The Clown <obno...@serendipita.com> wrote: >>> da...@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >>>> On 29 Oct, 15:58, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Oct 29, 10:07 am, InDeep <ind...@indeep.com> wrote:> Ian Michael >>>>> Gumby wrote: >>>>>>> The point is that with IDS, you can do more with less. Server >>>>>>> consolidation is an example. Unlike its competitors IDS scales >>>>>>> reasonably well. >>>>>> Let's shift outside the IDS box for just .02 quantums if you can. >>>>>> Indulge me. *<8o) >>>>>> <Ahem> <Cough> >>>>> [SNIP] >>>>> To sum up ID's comment: IBM Informix marketing is spotting and not >>>>> well tied together in to a package. There needs to be a cohesive and >>>>> comprehensive push. >>>>> Ok. I don't think anyone will disagree with that statement. Not even >>>>> IBMers. :-) >>>>> What we see at IOD is this new "encryption" solution which is marketed >>>>> at both DB2 and IDS. In short. No product differential in latest >>>>> announcements. >>>>> Again, there's no shock there. >>>> Right and where is >>>> thehttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/9/editions_features_storage.html >>>> >>>> (disk compression) for IDS then? >>> Well, you may as well ask where all the IDS features in DB2 are. >>> >>> I'm sure if enough people asked for it, they'd put it in. Did you ask >>> for it? No, neither did I. >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> Obnoxio The Clown >>> >>> http://obotheclown.blogspot.com- Hide quoted text - >>> >>> - Show quoted text - >> >> http://www.informix-zone.com/files/presentations/ids_roadmap_2008.pdf >> >> so DB2 with it now or IDS with it in 2010....hmmm wonder if that could >> hurt sales of Informix then? > > It's absence hasn't hurt sales of Informix so far, and it's presence > hasn't exactly turn DB2 into an Oracle-crushing behemoth, either. > >> Treating Informix as an equal to Db2 are we? > > That would be a gross insult to IDS. > >> And what happened to the idea of a reorg command in IDS, online reorg >> appears to have dropped off the roadmap.... > > You're basing that on a non-confidential bit of marketing ... ? > > Anyway, this is something that would drive me to drink if I was in R&D: > no-one says thanks for anything that you put into the code, you put I do! Really! From what I see in the product, and what the wind blows, I think those guys have been doing a great job. Specially if you consider that the product hasn't seen great instability even with all the new features keeping pop up... > something in and it's either late, or wrong, or if it's right and on > time, then it's "why isn't that other feature in there?" Well... I also do that :) I've been involved recently in a discussion (some people here know what I'm talking about) about a very small feature that should have been put long, long ago... I don't know when it will appear, but it will probably be considered a "small" feature. The funny thing is that most of my problems with production instances derive from the lack of this feature :) -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...