Re: Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

Christine Normile wrote: > Does anyone know precisely what is supposed to happen by June 16/17, 2006? > Or why someone suspects something will happen by that date? > > > Christine Normile > Informix Dynamic Server Product Manager > IBM Software Group > Information Management > I really don't. And as far as I know IDS 7 (That's a real dinosaur!) will be supported up to 2008... wow... no... September 2009 ( http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/731-eos.html ) This is something Oracle doesn't do... I'm sitting at a customer which of course also uses Oracle, and they currently have applications using unsupported versions of Oracle Database, because they didn't certify their applications to run on newer versions... And if you ask me, IBM is doing wrong... I'm tired of hitting bugs that are corrected at 9 or 10... And we keep giving patches to the customer... When I say to the customer "you should move...." they say "why? You'll support this for ages!"... But they moved to newer versions of Oracle... why? Because they were forced! Regards.