Re: Future of Informix

It all sounds so wonderful. Let's attempt to build pent up demand for yet another overpriced highly inaccessable product that will be hard to support because there won't be anybody in the human-resource pool/market to find to support it, because the only way they can get their hands on it is to beg borrow or steal it--or be an employee where the company doesn't mind taking a bath on the training and licensing. Doesn't this counter what Phil said, that they need to get back to the core products? Who cares about Universal Server? It's a cool product but I've yet to see it OR Illustra. Where's the demo? You want to compete against Oracle, yet you ignore the success Oracle enjoys. Why? Because of arrogance. You want the money but you don't want to risk letting developers and end users get their hands on the product without some asshole from marketing involved. Awe what the heck, we can market to the Fortune 100 cause they don't mind getting hosed. Universal Server: I'll believes it when I sees it. How much beaurocracy will I have to go through to get it, and what will the licensing be like? Will this be another product mix where the vendor produces a bunch of half-ass products that are documented poorly? I'd be willing to bet that the licensing is still hosed and there will be sticky run-time licensing features that will perpetuate the stupidity that is killing the products. Speaking of documentation, ditch the CD-DOCS and go with HTML. Get with the program Informix. You CD-ROM Docs suck. Quit wondering why your sales are off. Ask me. I'll tell you. Grab the left side, I'll help with the right side, and we'll pull your head out. :-) -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o---------