RE: Is IBM actually doing something with IDS?

Posted in 2007

Carsten Haese — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:31:40 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:02 -0500, Fred Pratt wrote: > "Simply giving away a "real deal, production ready" database engine for free > won't make any business sense to IBM." > > IBM does this with DB2 Express-C. Why not a similar version for IDS? Maybe IBM has determined that DB2 Express-C, contrary to IDS, isn't worth any money. I don't know. I have so far successfully avoided having to deal with DB2. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net