RE: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion

well said. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Neil Truby Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:19 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion "Tim Schaefer" <tim@spamethnot.com> wrote in message news:BDpWb.14560$Lg6.9727@fe17.usenetserver.com... > If I hand you three slips of paper, each one having a brand, > SQL-Server, DB2, and Oracle, what will you pick for the enterprise? > You will begin to understand the post-informix world. After a careful > review of these three, DB2 scales better, embraces open-systems, works > a lot like Informix, > and can MPP cluster "certified" up to 1000 servers sans XPS. Oracle > has only shown 8 cluster capability, 10G is still smokeware, and not > nearly as flexible in architecture as DB2. Take Informix out of your > world and you'll begin to understand. Dare I suggest that you're missing the point? You're arguing that, in many ways in which we Informix die-hards won't accept, DB2's functionality, scalability and ease of use is superior to that of Informix. We should infer from this justification for IBM's decision to allow Informix to die (from a marketing perspective). Whether you're right or not is irrelevant to this debate. We're telling you that the experience of our own eyes is that this message - right or not - is being ignored by Informix customers and that, as and when they leave Informix, they do not move to DB2 but to IBM's competitors. Thus we infer that IBM's decision to allow Informix to die (from a marketing perspective) is flawed. So the marketplace's answer to the question you pose above would be "Not DB2". sending to informix-list