Re: Migrating to Oracle <sigh>

Please provide Gary Proctor (gproctor@us.ibm.com) of IBM with the information regarding the ERP in question. I believe he is now tasked with working with vendors to retain support for Informix or port applications to Informix. Christine On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Brian McLaughlin wrote: > Well... after 6+ years of working with Informix here at George Fox > University, our ERP vendor has decided to discontinue the product > we're > on, and support will trail off to none by 2011 (we've already seen a > huge drop in support as their people move to other products). So > we've > had salesmen and demos over the last 3-4 months. A decision has been > made. We're going with a vendor that only supports Oracle. > > I've grown to really love Informix -- it just works. We've had a > variety of issues with our systems over the last 6 years (boot drive > failure, network adapter problem, etc) -- the only problem that had > anything to do with the Informix database was when I pulled a wrong > drive out of the box and downed a dataspace by mistake. Support from > Informix has been great. > > Going up on a new system needs to be timed around the academic > schedule > -- it will be about a 2-year process. So we'll keep Informix running > for at least a couple years as we get the new system in, translate our > data, move the various offices onto the new software, etc. But I wish > we could have gone with a system that supports Informix. I really > wish > we could have. > > Brian McLaughlin > Administrative Computing > George Fox University > (503) 554-2587 > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list