Re: Major crackdown on Informix products/ports ?

> When you're looking to install a system that replicates data from > a widely distributed set of stores through local warehouses and > on up to coorporate HQ, then you must have a Windows product > as part of the overall mix. > No you don't.Tell that to IBM and they will laugh at you. Its that type of mentality that will do you in. Will you find windows and have to export some data to a windows app? Most likely. Billy boy does have his monopoly now doesn't he? But it doesn't mean that you *MUST* have Windows products in the mix. > For this kind of situation, you're not competing with Bill. Bill > don't run warehouses and he don't run on Unix servers (both of > which are also necessary parts of the overall solution). You're > competing with other DBMS vendors to solve this 'hard problem' > (aspects of which run on small/commodity hardware). > Want to bet? Billy boy wants SQLserver and NT on everything, including the Big Iron. I believe the Hard CORE Microsloth zombies say NT on an Alpha cluser running SQueelServer comes to mind. And that my boys is real. The bottom line is that Bob's statements are not correct and his/Informix's positions are now being restated to read: We solve esoteric problems, enterprise wide solutions for really really big customers who are willing to pay us the big bucks, but we don't care about the little guy who's more of a pain in the kneck than he's worth. Did I get that right? ;-) (Toungue is definately in cheek. But I think you get my point!)