Re: Informix going open source????

rkusenet said: > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1605396,00.asp > > What is preventing IBM from giving Online 5.20 as open source. > Surely it can outsell MySQL. > > Also when the company outgrows Online 5.20, they can migrate > to IDS, thus generating revenue for IBM. Or SE? Start with SE? I suspect there is too much common code between the products to let one of them loose though. It might not be core code, but it might give away a lot of stuff. Of course, I could be talking out of my nether orifice. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "Necrophilia means never having to say ... well, anything!" - Captain Pedantic "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco sending to informix-list