RE: ouch, that hurts
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:22:46 -0500 > From: art@oninit.com > To: im_gumby@hotmail.com > CC: normajean.sebastian@tellabs.com; dcruncher4@aim.com; informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: ouch, that hurts > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: [SNIP] > > (Somehow I do imagine that people will miss the point I'm trying to > > make... ;-) > > Hey! I LIKED ODS 6.01! Besides, it wasn't nearly the debacle that IDS > 7.10 - 7.12 or 9.10-9.20 were! > > It was 7.11 that originally turned folks at my former employer off to > Informix. I had them all won over using 6.01, then we upgraded to 7.11 > (and quickly to 7.12) and WHAM! Bug city. > > Art S. Kagel > Oninit > Well I think you were in the beta program since Online 6.x never went GA (if my memory serves me.) I believe that there were some major architecture changes. Even with the acquisition of Illustra, there wasn't a forced migration. And yeah it took them a while to make things work right. IDS 11 vs IDS 7.31 vs IDS 9.x? Which one would you want? (Assuming that IDS 11 is pretty much stable...) Informix as a whole didn't have an arrogant culture like IBM or Oracle. (And yes IBM's culture is still *very* arrogant. Sorry Serge, but get out of the lab and spend time in S&D or IGS ;-) If you treat your customers like crap, pretty soon the cost of migration is less than the cost of doing business. You do have to give Oracle some credit. They've done a superb job of brain washing their customers. _________________________________________________________________ The best games are on Xbox 360. Click here for a special offer on an Xbox 360 Console. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/wheretobuy/
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Informix as a whole didn't have an arrogant culture like IBM or Oracle. > (And yes IBM's culture is still *very* arrogant. Sorry Serge, but get > out of the lab and spend time in S&D or IGS ;-) What is IGS? That's like two(?) name changes ago! ;-) I think you need to get out more yourself... > The best games are on Xbox 360. Click here for a special offer on an > Xbox 360 Console. Get it now! > <http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/wheretobuy/>; Subliminal message? Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab