Re: Informix Users Conference

In article <22mm7jINN3qq@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> khovanes@crackers.b30.ingr.com writes: >1) Informix doesn't seem to be very excited about windows NT. The first > discussion talk of the day was by Phil White (ceo of Informix) and Mike > Maples (microsoft VP), and talked about the impact of NT on the computing > environment as a whole. > My impression was very different. Phil White went out of his way to point out that Unix, Windows and Windows NT are projected to represent about 61 percent of the Operating Systems market in a couple of years, and that Informix has positioned itself to take advantage of that. >2) The sessions covered were interesting, but a lot of the time they seemed > to be directed from a marketing point of view. The sessions really could > have been a lot more technical, but hey, it's just the second conference > they have had. > Again, we must have attended different sessions. I was very pleased that many of the sessions were either led or attended by Informix employees. The session on ODBC was attended by several of Informix's lead developers, for example, and their participation was significant and substantive. >3) On the following day, there was a round table discussion about NT and OO > by some guys Informix selected. I forget the names, but my god, they are > very hostile toward NT. And this seems to fit the Informix point of view. > My impression from informix was that NT will go away, and they seem to > be betting the farm. Unix seems to be the commitment, and UNIX only. > Sure Informix will play around with NT and offer the SE, but Online isn't > supposed to be around until late 94 or early 95. This gives me the idea > they want to see what happens, while Oracle and Sybase are porting their > stuff already. > The big negative view was expressed by Rich Finkelstein. But this was his attempt to convince the listener that stability in a database environment is more important than new technology. Windows NT isn't really released yet, after all. But: This wasn't Informix speaking. It didn't even occur to me to think that the opinions the three panelists offered were synonymous with those of Informix. -- George Poynor poynor@wheaton.edu