Re: "The Problem with Informix" Article by Philip Howarth, Bloor Research
> > The death was not "greatly exaggerated", it was eminent, and it happened. > Tell me where there is an Informix presence anywhere that matters. Informix > is history. The only place it matters is where it already exists, big in the > minds of current, existing accounts, outside of that it doesn't matter. When > Informix is marketed, if ever, pigs will indeed fly. As much as I want to disagree with Data Goob I find it hard not to. As I have seen the Job market in Informix (Europe) just literally die away. That tends to be an indicator as to how well a product is doing as more jobs means more people using it. Rather simple way of looking at it I know but supply and demand comes to mind. No demand tells you what is happening with Informix in europe. Come across people now who have never heard of Informix :-( Traveller
Traveller2003 wrote: > Come > across people now who have never heard of Informix :-( Apart from the obvious comments about "a Kodak moment", I've found that I've always come across more people who have never heard of Informix than those that have. -- Strewth! Stick a sock in it, Sheila!
Sorry to top post... There are a lot of people still running Sybase today. Not a lot of new customers, but even though the customer base is shrinking it still exists. The same is true of IDS and the difference is that unlike Sybase, IDS is now under IBM and is going to be around for quite some time. Then there are a lot of people who don't know who Dick Pick was, or ever heard of Revelation. Or I just saw a thread on Knowledgeman. Or there's Progress. Ever hear of those products? The point being, the lack of brand recognition doesn't mean that there isn't life in a product. ;-) Remember that ad done by Finocchio/Dexmier? The one with the hand holding the phone? 9/10 calls pass through an Informix database or something like that... When you oem a product, not many people care whats inside, as long as it does its job. Traveller2003 wrote: [SNIP] > > As much as I want to disagree with Data Goob I find it hard not to. As > I have seen the Job market in Informix (Europe) just literally die > away. That tends to be an indicator as to how well a product is doing > as more jobs means more people using it. Rather simple way of looking > at it I know but supply and demand comes to mind. > No demand tells you what is happening with Informix in europe. Come > across people now who have never heard of Informix :-( > > > Traveller