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Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion

Posted in 2004

Topics: General Discussion

Candy McCall — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Rename IDS to DB2. Rename Informix-SE to DB2-Lite :-) > > > What should IBM do? > > In my humble opinion? Promote Informix as a product in its own right. > Ignore the analysts. Try to sell it to new customers. Destroy the > impression that its actions are giving that Informix is dead. And not just > because I want Informix to be preserved (although I do). But because they > are haemoragging customers to the competition. Informix users are showing > by deed and in their droves that they do not want to migrate to DB2. > sending to informix-list

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Obnoxio The Clown — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Candy McCall wrote: > Rename IDS to DB2. > Rename Informix-SE to DB2-Lite > :-) But then all the DB2 DBAs would be out of jobs. Hmmm... >> > What should IBM do? >> >> In my humble opinion? Promote Informix as a product in its own right. >> Ignore the analysts. Try to sell it to new customers. Destroy the >> impression that its actions are giving that Informix is dead. And not >> just >> because I want Informix to be preserved (although I do). But because >> they >> are haemoragging customers to the competition. Informix users are >> showing by deed and in their droves that they do not want to migrate to >> DB2. -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche

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