Re: No future for DB2

They also wanted the technology - it saved them writing it. Same reason why they bought Sequent - the NUMA-Q architecture was cheaper to buy than develop it internally. Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't >From: "Noons" <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au> >Reply-To: "Noons" <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au> >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: No future for DB2 >Date: 27 Jul 2005 23:33:52 -0700 > >Data Goob wrote: > > flames. They opted to buy the racing team with their marketing budget, >instead > > of promoting any of their products. The racing team really helped get >the > >Oh puh-leaze: the ONLY reason IBM bought Informix >was that it was a cheap way of buying another 5 or so % >points in the db size of user base race so they could >claim to be ahead of Oracle! > >They NEVER had any plan to do anything else with Informix >other than improperly claiming their share of the market >as DB2's or IBm's. > >And that's a fact. > sending to informix-list