Re: Announcing: The IBM Customer Advisory Council for Informix

Double Echo said: > >> The bottom line is this: unless you spend lots of money with IBM buying >> Informix, you can forget about influencing them in any way, shape or >> form. > > Yeah, this is old school thinking. If Informix goes "FREE" as DB2 has > then your argument is invalid. If it is free, then IBM would want to > know even more how to stay competitive, and that would mean listening > even more to the people in the trenches, the developers, etc etc. Thanks. I needed a laugh. Now, if you go and look at how much money IBM makes from its various businesses, then think about how much of that is earned by Informix and then think if IBM would even give a shit in the global scheme of things. ESPECIALLY if they are giving it away for free. I don't think they would, but IBM _could_ sell off Informix AND DB2 and not even notice the impact to their bottom line. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com