Re: flagship sunk

"Will Wheel" <Will.Wheel@uk.will.wheel.com> wrote in message news:eJABf.71129$c8.18675@fe25.usenetserver.com... > J'rgen Buck wrote: >> Our brand new flagship sunk after a short, but heavy battle with it's >> stepbrother. >> The label "flagship for pure oltp" is gone on the IBM website: >> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids10/ >> >> Seems to me the IDS ship came into the reach of the DB2 guns. >> > > I don't see 'pure oltp' just embedded. > > "Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is IBM's flagship database for > industrial-strength, embedded computing. " Patronising horseshit!

Captain Pedantic wrote: > > Patronising horseshit! > > One would almost get the idea that IDS is being marketed to compete with MySQL, which doesn't seem to have a problem with being a leader in the embedded space. There are indeed changes being made to those pages. Yesterday there were only bullets, today even Standard Engine shows up--it wasn't there yesterday. And also interesting to note that IDS has no trials and betas next to its named products: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/sw-bycategory/subcategory/SWB30.html If the people in charge of Informix actually care about the product it would be hard to imagine that they would actually like this mess. Interesting too that there seems to be no change to DB2 taking top billing on the line-up. Where is the IIUG on this one? -DE-

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:58:25 -0500, Double Echo <doubleecho@your.com> wrote: >Captain Pedantic wrote: >> >> Patronising horseshit! >> >> > >One would almost get the idea that IDS is being marketed to compete >with MySQL, which doesn't seem to have a problem with being a leader >in the embedded space. > >There are indeed changes being made to those pages. Yesterday there >were only bullets, today even Standard Engine shows up--it wasn't >there yesterday. And also interesting to note that IDS has no trials >and betas next to its named products: > >http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/sw-bycategory/subcategory/SWB30.html > True, but I found IDS 10 starting here . . . . http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/ . . .even though IDS 10 isn't included on either the Linux or Windows Software Evaluation Kit . . . http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/sek/?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=DLMAIN >If the people in charge of Informix actually care about the product it >would be hard to imagine that they would actually like this mess. Interesting >too that there seems to be no change to DB2 taking top billing on the line-up. > >Where is the IIUG on this one? > >-DE-