Re: Off Topic: Re: Informix Job Posting - UK Only

Posted in 2004

Fred Nurk — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 06:27:13 +1100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Sebastian, Norma J." <NormaJean.Sebastian@tellabs.com> wrote in message news:1102608627.eea7b2ec593a2b9a55403c4721f77aba@teranews... > > > The only reason we still have a SAP oracle instance is because we don't > resources to make the jump to informix. Our main SAP database is > informix, and boss agrees moving from oracle to informix makes plenty of > sense.... money-wise, and DBA-wise. > I will keep pushing... > > (so hey... any ibm'ers looking to volunteer for this?...) > > Considering it takes more oracle people to do the job, off-shoring makes > sense... 2 for the price of 1?... > > Both oracle and ibm should pay attention to microsoft....sqlserver is > pretty impressive, the only thing holding it back is it's operating > system. Not really, same warehouse on DB2 UDB on AIX was slower than SQLSErver > > NJ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Data Goob > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:43 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Off Topic: Re: Informix Job Posting - UK Only > > Are there any big customer wins for Informix? > > Still haven't heard anything! Are there any new customers worth > mentioning? > > By the way I heard the buzz on the floor at the Oracle conference this > week was that most of the people attending were from India. > Probably will be more beneficial next conference to just host it in > India to help all those companies doing the outsourcing save even more > money by not having it in one of the most expensive towns on the planet, > San Francisco. > ============================================================ > The information contained in this message may be privileged > and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee > or agent responsible for delivering this message to the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, > dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, > please notify us immediately by replying to the message and > deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs > ============================================================ > > sending to informix-list