Re: Future of SE? (does it have one)

Posted in 2000

Obnoxio The Clown — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:55:02 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: Surfer! <nevis-view@nospam.demon.co.uk> > >One of our salesman reckons the days of SE are (very) limited. Of >course for the customers wanting 24x7 working they will have to move to >Online WGS, but otherwise its (IMHO) total overkill! He was talking as >if he believed that Informix are about to pull the plug on SE. > >Are they? When? Or is this simply a salesman creating an opportunity? "Creating an opportunity"? Bull$hitting is more like it. The last time I heard anything about SE, there were no plans *whatsoever* to axe it. It won't get much better (although there are rumours of them finally chopping the 2GB file size limit), but there are no plans *I'm* aware of to axe it. Of course, I could be bull$hitting too... :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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David Williams — Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:25:06 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <89vsvd$9ob$1@news.xmission.com>, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> writes > >From: Surfer! <nevis-view@nospam.demon.co.uk> >> >>One of our salesman reckons the days of SE are (very) limited. Of >>course for the customers wanting 24x7 working they will have to move to >>Online WGS, but otherwise its (IMHO) total overkill! He was talking as >>if he believed that Informix are about to pull the plug on SE. >> >>Are they? When? Or is this simply a salesman creating an opportunity? > >"Creating an opportunity"? Bull$hitting is more like it. The last time I >heard anything about SE, there were no plans *whatsoever* to axe it. It >won't get much better (although there are rumours of them finally chopping >the 2GB file size limit), but there are no plans *I'm* aware of to axe it. > Correct it is currently Category 3 Limited Maintenance. No feature requests accepted + only important fixes done. However the only guarantee is that it will not move to Category 4 (Time + Materials for support) until the end of the year! >Of course, I could be bull$hitting too... :-) >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > -- David Williams