Re: informix market share

"rkusenet" <rkusenet_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2dnif.1163$wf2.60245_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message
> news:RLmif.34038$6e1.27895_at_newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>
> I was one of those who suspected IBM's intention back in 2001. Indeed some
> IBM employees did admit that they never wanted Informix to succeed. But
> what they saw in next few years after Apr 2001 was that Informix customers
> are fanatical about their product and the reputation is excellent. That
> forced
> them to change their tactics.
> I was genuinely surprised to see the features in Informix's latest version
> 10.
> IBM has added lot of new exciting features. If they were interested in
> killing it,
> why bother keeping Informix up-to-date. This doesn't make sense.

This point - if IBM wants to kill Informix why are they bothering to keep Informix so up-to-date? - is an excellent point but begs the equally valid and baffling question "Why are they bothering to put so much quality R&D into Informix if they won't advertise it?".

> Informix is still toast bcos of FUD. What I think is going to happen is
> that
> in another 1/2 yrs DB2 will match Informix in features and performance
> and at that time many of Informix customer will migrate to DB2.

This is just bollocks. IBM execs have already learnt the hard and painful truth that Informix customers will not migrate to DB2.

> Add to it that no one wants to learn Informix skills, the demise will be
> further accelerated.

That may however be true. Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 15:08:43 CST