Re: Informix Software is Finished...

I am sorry, but I found it very humorous (Maybe I have been working too late in the night) that as I read through this thread on "Re: Informix Software is Finished..." that the next article was "Informix Jobs in Wisconsin?"... Thought that maybe i'd lighten this up a little. Microsoft is not all that bad... of course I own an Apple Powerbook. David Meyer Guerilla Software, Inc. Chief Cook and Bottlewasher In article <60p5ue$7kb@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, rambabu@sprynet.com ("Vijay R. Anisetti") wrote: > boris wrote: > } > } I used Illustra a few years ago ( as applications programmer ) and wasn't > } impressed at all. About 6 months ago I heard from a friend who just left > } Informix that Universal Server is in very bad shape ( not working ). > > What else you expect from a novice product like IUS, when the products > like > MS-Windows and Oracle can survive being bad, any product can survive. > > } Personally I don't believe in superior Informix technology which for some > } obscure reasons just doesn't sell. What they definitely have are some > } academic guys who make a lot of noise; out of nothing looks like. Will > } Microsoft buy it? Well, why should it buy inferior technology? > > Microsoft has some of the most unstable OSs ever developed, marketing > I > agree (they can sell s..t as gold), technology .. Ummmm .. you'll > think > about the technology of Microsoft into oblivion. > > } BTW their lies to stockholders is part of the same story: they cannot > } compete and fix the numbers instead. > } A few months ago I was stupid enough to take Informix hype seriously ( > } during their noisy developer's conference ) and bought their stock. Next > } time I'll know better. > > There is the real cause of resentment, that is much better. > > } > } Boris Dynin > } Movil > } > } Redmond is one of very few places where one can get software of reasonable > } quality nowdays. > > looks like thinking of buying microsoft stock (more). > > } > ___________________ > _____| Vijay |___ > \\ | 'Bindas Dude' | / > ) |___________________| ( > /______) (____\\