RE: IDS Next Version - features wanted.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Data Goob Sent: 01 June 2005 01:56 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted. >Like I said, take a look at what has worked for the past 20 years. >Microsoft, Oracle, MySQL, and even Postgres. Most are marketed >FIRST TO DEVELOPERS then to executive management. And don't forget >what I said about who corporate management is. It's kids with MBAs >and such that grew up on WINDOWS. Sure there's a few white hairs >making the decision, but it's now all the bedhead haircut crowd >moving into management with WINDOWS on their minds, not UNIX. If there >is a *NIX involved, it'll probably be "Linux in da house, ya'll". Those >managers, like years gone by took their cues from developers and the DBAs >to make a decision. I can't count the number of times it was asked >"So what do you think?" which tipped it to Informix. It sounds to me like you are taking your own personal experience, and generalising it here. >Now it's tipped to anything else. So if you think IBM is going to give >Informix >a "campaign" to both execs and techs, dream on. I think the most if >anything you're ever going to get is a token ad in one magazine, and >it will say little if anything to anyone, exec or tech. A total waste. > >Whatever conclusions you people come to here don't really matter, even >my opinion doesn't really matter, except to say what a f***ing tragedy >Informix has been. It would be a nice quiet death if the product was >total shit, but it's a good product, that's the tragedy. Did you have a very bad experience in some company ? You sound very upset about it all .... sending to informix-list