Re: Is Informix Dead??

-=> Quoting Bob Beaulieu to All <=- In article <1993Nov23.194704.15909@gasco.com> tbk@gasco.com (Theron B Kousek x5933) writes: >What's the deal with Informix??? Why am I seeing so many job postings >for Sybase and Oracle and very few for Informix??? I have worked with >Informix for over 4 years and now with Sybase for about a year and >basically, Informix is just as good as Sybase. Why are so many companies >"avoiding" Informix in favor of Sybase/Oracle??? Lack of advertisement??? I *gotta* respond to this one. There are plenty of jobs for programming in Informix - you either have to know where to look or you have to be employed by one of the foreign job shops! The company I'm working with (name withheld) easily employs over 100 foreign programmers who had some experience with Informix. You know, the standard deal to cut the American programmer out of the loop because American labor costs are sky high (which is true). I entered the Informix software (commercial) job market (I was in the military) in June, 1993, and was hired the same month. (Of course, I did my homework and planned *six months* in advance, but still ...) BB> Its seems that the competetion is fierce these days regarding BB> databases and Informix needs to relate to the windows environment with BB> ease. I'm hoping that will happen in our lifetime ;-) It will. Believe me, the CEO, the R&D people, and just about everyone else at Informix knows this and is responding to it. Writing/rewriting a full-fledged object-oriented programming language is not a trivial task ... there *will* be a 4GL++, and it is on the horizon. Don't ask me how soon. I don't work in R&D. Bill ... RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure! ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 ---- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Data Warp Premium BBS (713) 355-6107 HST/V.32bis | | Spring / Houston, Texas Multi-line, multi-gig PCBoard BBS | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+