RE: No future for DB2

Posted in 2005

Dirk Moolman — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:44:18 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Mark A Sent: 29 July 2005 01:38 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: No future for DB2 >IBM has already incorporated many Informix features into DB2 and more are >in >development. This was the plan from day 1, since the buyout was mostly >because of the intellectual capital they got from Informix. > >There are more and more Informix compatibility syntax commands in the DB2 >products, as documented in the manuals. But IBM also admitted last year that they might not be merging DB2 and Informix anymore, as first announced - while working on this, they realised that is was not as easy as they first thought. sending to informix-list