Re: We CAN compete with Microsoft! (and Oracle, by the way...)

F. Fern=E1ndez wrote: >=20 > Hi all! >=20 > I am very sad with the marketing strategy of Informix lately. > Bob Finochio is saying that "We can=B4t compete" with Microsoft > and that Informix must focus on enterprise database solutions. Yep. > What this means is that Informix, although is has a strong base > in smaller customers, is looking only at the big ones. Instead of > competing also with Microsoft, weak as it is in solid solutions, > it's looking to fight only with Oracle and DB2! Yep. > I'm an Informix developper for 14 years now and I really think > that Informix engines are better than Oracle. But it's easier to > beat Microsoft than Oracle in the database market, wouldn't > you say? Why leave the smaller database market to Microsoft? No, I'd say easier to compete with similar products. Leave the low end to MS because they can give away their products. > Microsoft will not have a good/solid database solution in the > next few years because of a simple factor: it's not in their > company culture to build solid, reliable, dependable software. > They prefer the do-it-all vaporware way! So, why are you > frightened by their marketing noise? Not frightened, just too much effort. Remember, we had to cut costs to survive. Easier to concentrate on the 20% that returns 80% of your revenue. That doesn't mean you ignore the other 80%. > It's true that many companies will enter the database technology > through SQL-Server. But have you been running NT with "it" lately? > It suks! Noone in their right mind will base their business > critical systems on those! Yet, this kind of databases may not be > enterprise-level as you call it! Where should they go when they > realize they need a REAL database engine? I'd suggest Informix. :-) > So, Informix, you shouldn't lower your arms against Microsoft. Did we have them raised? > There are millions of smaller companies that need good > database solutions and should not be abandoned to them. They are not being abandoned. We still have low end products. We are even expanding that end to include Win95, allegedly. ;-) Just because the sales effort on a product is reduced, it doesn't mean the product is being dropped or the users are being abandoned. Not yet anyway. ;-)) > Of course, don't let the high end systems run away either... Never! :-) Cheers, --=20 Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+