Re: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)
eric@herber-consulting.de wrote: > "Performance, Reliability, Simplicity..." this really describes > IDS best. > > Are those the main reasons why Cisco decided to favour IDS > instead of other commercial or free databases ? > > Just can't imagine that Cisco did choose IDS because of the ongoing > advertising and marketing campaigns for IDS from IBM -:) > So there have been other reasons to favour IDS. Don't know if Cisco has > been > an Informix shop in the past, but I did not hear the name in > conjunction > with Informix. > > I also could not imagine that IBM didn't try to push DB2 into this > account. > Funny, that DB2 with all the benchmarks it wins, with all the autonomic > features it has, with all the advertising done for it, with the large > market share it has, with the untouched scalability options and ease of > use, didn't make the race -:) > > Why is IDS better suited for this ? IDS is clearly better suited than DB2 for single app, embedded OLTP. A CISCO server fits that bill. No DBA, single minded, end customer neither knows nor cares what's underneath. Also DB2 can't be cracked open like IDS to be extended via data blades. Although I'm not aware that CISCO is using that. It would indeed be interesting if Nancy spoke up. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab IOD Conference http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/
Interesting to hear that. However I think that IDS is generally better suited than DB2 for OLTP based applications, not limited to single applications or environments without database administrator. However IBM doesn't want it to be that. The main reason to position IDS as embedded OLTP database is the fear that it could pick up DB2 business outside the embedded area - which is probably not too much, if I interpreted the quarter results from IBM correctly. There are some customers who run hundred's and even thousands of IDS instances with a handful of dba's. I've also seen many single, large IDS instances with thousands of concurrent users accessing it and only a single dba managing the production, test and development environment. If I were in marketing I would express it this way: "IDS is designed from the ground up for autonomic computing. An area where our competitors still try to play catchup with additional, chargeable tools..." Just thinking about DB2 Recovery Expert, DB2 Performance Expert, DB2 High Performance Unload... -:) Serge Rielau schrieb: > eric@herber-consulting.de wrote: > > "Performance, Reliability, Simplicity..." this really describes > > IDS best. > > > > Are those the main reasons why Cisco decided to favour IDS > > instead of other commercial or free databases ? > > > > Just can't imagine that Cisco did choose IDS because of the ongoing > > advertising and marketing campaigns for IDS from IBM -:) > > So there have been other reasons to favour IDS. Don't know if Cisco has > > been > > an Informix shop in the past, but I did not hear the name in > > conjunction > > with Informix. > > > > I also could not imagine that IBM didn't try to push DB2 into this > > account. > > Funny, that DB2 with all the benchmarks it wins, with all the autonomic > > features it has, with all the advertising done for it, with the large > > market share it has, with the untouched scalability options and ease of > > use, didn't make the race -:) > > > > Why is IDS better suited for this ? > IDS is clearly better suited than DB2 for single app, embedded OLTP. > A CISCO server fits that bill. No DBA, single minded, end customer > neither knows nor cares what's underneath. > > Also DB2 can't be cracked open like IDS to be extended via data blades. > Although I'm not aware that CISCO is using that. It would indeed be > interesting if Nancy spoke up. > > Cheers > Serge > -- > Serge Rielau > DB2 Solutions Development > IBM Toronto Lab > > IOD Conference > http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ondemandbusiness/conf2006/
eric@herber-consulting.de said: > > If I were in marketing I would express it this way: Brilliant! :oD -- Bye now, Obnoxio "... no bill is required as no value was provided." -- Christine Normile