Re: UK Companies Using Informix

Malcolm Weallans wrote: > Mark, > In 1987 Informix made an attempt to find out all the UK customers. At that > time we discovered in excess of 600 but guess what, the information we > collected was put into a database which was subsequently lost. They should have hired a DBA. :-O > And now they have the records of who uses the product from Tech Support > contracts, but that isn't comprehensive. Now THERE'S an understatement! It's the customers who DON'T buy support that usually need to hire people. > But if they don't send out any > marketing why do they need to know who the customers are? Maybe it's the other way round? Mind you, if they did, they would probably be marketing DB2 to them. ;-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | Mydas Solutions Ltd http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+