Re: informix market share

"rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Dg8if.35805$gK4.1149183_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:-
>
>> Informix IDS 9 is recommended by IBM for Apps exploiting OO as well as
>> apps requiring the DBMS runs OLTP embedded.
>>
>> Informix IDS has been and still is after what .. 5 years with IBM(?)...
>> the backbone of >90% of 911 call centers in the US. Can't be that bad
>> then and ain't going anywhere....
>
> Add to it, IDS runs on 20 out of 25 top grocery chains in North America,
> and about 80% of all retail shops like Wal-Mart, Sears etc.
>
> I have not heard of one significant customer in the above industry
> switching
> to Oracle after IBM bought Informix. On the contrary Wal-Mart.com switched
> to Informix from Oracle. [ Wal-Mart.com is separate from Wal-Mart
> stores ].
>

Even so, Informix had only 1.4% market share in 2004, even less than Sybase.

> Much I like Informix (though I stopped working with it for about a year
> now), I also think it is toast for reasons totally different. What
> is happening is that Informix skilled people are rapidly shrinking, just
> like
> Sybase and other fading products. In my last project I worked with some
> UK folks and was shocked to learn that they were exposed to only one
> RDBMS: SQL Server, right thru their college days. Little bit of research
> told me that this trend is bit global with most of the fresh graduates
> hardly
> proficient in lesser known databases.
>

I am not surprised. Informix's future is about as bright as OS/2. Received on Sat Nov 26 2005 - 23:02:21 CST