Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company: I Thought Informix was Dead?

On 8 Dec 2006 15:57:39 -0800, cfoughty@gmail.com wrote: >So I've been doing Oracle for almost 20 years now and I've been >assigned to learn Informix IDS so I can become a backup Informix DBA. I >thought when IBM acquired Informix they would kill it and move >everybody to UDB (DB2 for non-mainframe). So what is happenning to the >future of Informix? > >BTW, it seems like a pretty good database. Kinda of a cross between >Sybase and Oracle. > >Help me understand. Glad to have you aboard . . . . JWC