Re: Well he started it!!! wuz Re: IDS on a Mac?
dcruncher4@aim.com wrote: > all this may be true, but there is no doubt that when it comes > to investment Informix::IBM is not same as RDB::Oracle or FoxPro::Microsoft. > > In IDS 11 (Cheetah) one feature which is not being discussed much > is increased compatibility with Oracle in SPL. They have introduced > PL/SQL type syntax for it. Now what business justification could > that be, except that IBM believes that there is business case for > getting customers of Oracle move to Informix. > > Surely no one would do to a product on its death bed. > > I am more than happy with what IBM has done to Informix, > more so when I compare it with the period 2001-2004. Now it > is left to Informix customers to reciprocate to IBM. > It's very refreshing to read your posts on this thread... After the acquisition the product improved (cheetah is the greatest step), the investment is clearly there, the bug backlog was reduced, intermediate cumulative patches were introduced for common platforms, the features are customer driven, and only minor releases got to end of life... Less than the competitors I'd say. I believe the compatibility features available in Cheetah will be improved in future releases. Internally I can say I never felt so much enthusiasm in any release (been there for 9+ years). And I receive a lot of internal Viper info, but around July that same info came with a nice wild cat on it... Marketing... did we ever saw good marketing in Informix? Did it ever stopped customers from getting excellent return on their investment? I'm proud to work with it, for it, and specially with (very far away) the people behind it! I'm involved with a site migration from 7.31. When they started to think about it we had to kindly ask the partner to use 10.00 instead of 9.4. The delay on the project was so big that Cheetah appeared... Now they're back on the subject and the partner asked me to talk to the final customer and convince them of going to IDS 11... Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...