RE: Looks Like The Party Is Over In Menlo (2nd try)

From: Carlos Benjamin <benj@firstlinux.net> > >--- Watson Paul <Paul.Watson@fefc.ac.uk> > > wrote: > >> > SE is out of data in terms of data integrity and should be dropped > >> > in favour of IDS Workgroup Edition. > > > >What about the people that use SE and find it reliable, straightforward > >to use and don't want the learning curve or expense of IDS? What about > >the people that bundled SE as part of product? > > > >Do they all just move to access or something > >Mayhap I just missed it, but I come back after a relaxing weekend to this >subject line which includes four subplots I'm trying to unravel. > >1. The rent at Menlo is too high? Yup. >2. The new guy is revamping Informix to fit what he's most familiar with >and the Informix product line will never be the same? Well, let's put it this way, the entire top management team (with the exception of the bloke running the international "wing") has been restructured so it's run by people from Ardent. The headquarters is also moving back to Ardent country. What is the most likely conclusion to draw? Of course, it's that he's taking a rational view to the excessive Dolly Parton rent, and he want to keep the team that made Ardent a great success so that Informix will also be a great success. >3. Informix on Linux is dead? Not that I know of. No more than usual anyway. :-) >4. SE is going away? Not that I know of. No more than usual anyway. :-) >OK, five subplots if you count Informix is dead. Oh, and I forgot the IIUG >is run by the three stooges subplot. I have no comment to make here, except to say that I find it a little odd that some of the Board appear to be Informix staff, which must make for some interesting moral conflicts on their part. :-) >What's the reality here? This is why I don't watch soap operas. I have no idea. I just made this all up. :-) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com