Re: informix market share

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:25:23 -0000, "Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote:

>"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message
>news:x5bif.19109$BZ5.8847_at_newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
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>>> 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 help companies equip for a market-leading app in Europe that remains
>Informix-only. I fear for how long though: the last two customers have both
>expressed concern not at Informix itself or even IBM's plans for it, but the
>in shortage of skilled staff. Good for me selling managed service of
>course, but not good for Informix long-term.
>

Good testimony to its reliability . . . . and I'd like to think that there's still skilled Informix help around . . . . .

>I previously mentioned that we recruited another graduate trainee this
>summer, the first for a couple of years. We got a very good one but he,
>like most people we interviewed this time, and in stark contrast to even 2
>years ago, hadn't even covered SQL Server even in Computer Science: the unis
>seem to think Access is sufficient grounding in database theory now!
>

Ouch! that sounds painful . . . .

JWC Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 22:14:22 CST