Re: SQL Fun Challenge #2

wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Noons) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0403042031.b06552d_at_posting.google.com>...
> > I wonder if experience will eventually teach them that there is as
> > much future in Informix as there is in Ingres?
>
> and it's a pity. Informix used to be a very good product
> and their people were some of the best in the industry.
> Somewhere around 1995 it all went wrong. Dunno what caused
> it, but it was sad to watch.

Everyone who is in the industry long enough can remember very long list of very good products with users that were some of the best in the industry. And there is always somewhere around when it all went wrong. It is quite sad and also scary, because one never knows when he will be in the group of professional users of some product, which went wrong somewhere around ...

In the loving memory of Informix, Ingres, Paradox, Novell, OS/2, Pascal, everything what was once on my desktop without MS label, Assembler x86, Fox Pro, VMS VAX, Compaq, Psion, ...

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