RE: Universe and Windows 2000 Server.

Posting Of The Week award to the clown ! Very informative. Thanks for the enlightenment. Regards -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: 12 September 2000 12:58 To: informix-list@iiug.org Cc: paul.brown@informix.com Subject: Re: Universe and Windows 2000 Server. From: "Matti Lamprhey" <matti@polka.bikini> > >"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote... > > From: "Matti Lamprhey" <matti@polka.bikini> > > > > > >I think the use of the word "legacy" is somewhat provocative in the > > >circumstances, though. > > > > Yeah, us dinosaurs using ORDBMS's and datablades take offense >easily. :-) > >Obnoxio, tell me what a datablade is, please. I asked an Informixer >about this a few weeks ago and the answer was vague in the extreme. >But I'm sure it's extremely clever, whatever it is. It *is* very clever. It's a really good idea, conceptually quite simple and it's really sad that more people haven't adopted it, but I blame that entirely upon Informix who have marketed it completely wrong, mostly, I suspect, because they didn't understand it fully themselves. [snipped]...