Re: Informix left standing

On 7 Mar 98 at 16:29, Steven Hauser wrote: > Some know-it-all wrote: > >And I think version 5 is still faster on single-cpu > >machines that 7.x. Remember the NewEra failure to catch on > > Yeah, New Era is a disaster, but the point is scalability of > performance and the move to SMP architectures in the main Unix > vendors (Sun, Hp, Ibm) at the time. This made the Informix product > (6-7.x) a success, and grew the company for several years. > > The Datablade engine (9.x?) is too different to use, > and there was no trend in the market for database objects > when it was released, causing a marketing disaster and this thread. > > Jesus, do you guys ever actually read the postings? Nope. I always just respond by blind impulse... -- /Ciao, \\Billy / \\Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za / Chairman, South African Informix User Group: http://www.west.co.za/~saiug \\ Informix FAQ @ http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html / Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ \\________________________________________________________________________________________________