Re: flagship sunk

Well we we laughing the other day...where does AIX a definite IBM product go? http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sw-bycategory/ it's grey!! Ha! Ha! and cics ?? I can't even find mqueue! Someone told me it has no real competitors and 90% market share??? Is it WebSphere MQ under "Application Connectivity (MOM)". Surely it is messaging? They are even hiding MQueue!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> To: <david@smooth1.co.uk> Cc: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:04 PM Subject: Re: flagship sunk > > david@smooth1.co.uk said: >> >> >> 1. Will never happen IDS is just another database to IBM. DB2 and IDS >> are >> two databases and you pick the one that best fits your needs. That is >> the >> IBM strategy and will not change. > > Sad but true. EchoEcho and the rest of us may well rail against Informix > being in the "Information Management" brand, but that's where all the > stuff that manages databases goes. IBM's software stack is jaw-droppingly > huge and only a very few product groupings exist within the software > division. I was actually quite surprised that Rational managed to get > their own colour, I would have guessed that they'd wind up being swallowed > up by Websphere. I suspect that some of their products have already > disappeared into the Purple Pile and that the brand will one day be fully > subsumed. > > When IBM recently bought Omegamon (a Tivoli competitor) they just got > shoved straight into the Tivoli brand and colour. Although the scale might > be different, conceptually this is exactly what happened with Informix. > > -- > Bye now, > Obnoxio > > "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" > - Coluche > > did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all > columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this > has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record > and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent > table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, > relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit > controversial among modellers. > > --r937, dbforums.com > --- > [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses but it is your responsibility > to maintain up to date anti virus software on the device that you are > currently using to read this email. ] > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.23/243 - Release Date: > 27/01/2006 > > --- [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses but it is your responsibility to maintain up to date anti virus software on the device that you are currently using to read this email. ]

David Williams wrote: > > Well we we laughing the other day...where does AIX a definite IBM > product go? > > http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sw-bycategory/ AFAIK AIX is part of the hardware division, just like zOS and OS/400 -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, Windows IBM Toronto Lab