Informix and Lawson Software
Lawson Software has posted a "Letter to their customers" on their support website indicating that Lawson will no longer support Informix with the 8.1 release of the Lawson Environment. This is too bad, as the main need for Informix at this site is due to the Lawson Software ... more than likely, we will start looking at other options to replace Informix. My guess is that it will not be DB2. Here is an excerpt from the letter: To provide you with a reasonable amount of time to plan and prepare for possible migration to a different database, this letter serves as notice that Lawson's 8.1 Environment release will not be supported on the Informix database. If you are currently using the Informix database with the Lawson 7.3.3 or 8.0.X Environment releases, you may continue to use the Informix database and the Lawson 7.3.3 or 8.0.X Environment releases, until such releases are decommissioned, and be supported by Lawson. However, if you are in the process of upgrading to the Lawson 8.0.X Environment, you may wish to consider moving to another database such as: IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. As IBM's stated direction is to integrate the best function of Informix into its DB2 database, Lawson's support of DB2 will continue to provide you with most or all of the Informix function, and Lawson encourages you to consider migrating to DB2 over the coming years.
"Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote in message news:VoacnZmK-ucvw7iiXTWJig@eatel.net... > Lawson Software has posted a "Letter to their customers" on their support > website indicating that Lawson will no longer support Informix with the 8.1 > release of the Lawson Environment. This is too bad, as the main need for > Informix at this site is due to the Lawson Software ... more than likely, we > will start looking at other options to replace Informix. My guess is that > it will not be DB2. If true, this would be very ironic, as one of the three "What Business Partners are Saying [about IDS 9.4]" "success stories" is from a Tony Komor, Director of Development at ...... Lawson Software! (http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids94/bus-quotes.html refers).
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:34:41 -0500, "Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote: >Lawson Software has posted a "Letter to their customers" on their support >website indicating that Lawson will no longer support Informix with the 8.1 >release of the Lawson Environment. This is too bad, as the main need for >Informix at this site is due to the Lawson Software ... more than likely, we >will start looking at other options to replace Informix. My guess is that >it will not be DB2. > > I read the whole thing . . . . . Thanks, IBM. No forced migrations . . . . . Please crossreference the Lawson announcement when IDS 9.4 came out . . . http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids94/quotes.html Guess I shouldn't be surprised.