Return-Path: Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (root@localhost) by orafaq.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4CIPrs32090 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:25:53 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 209.68.248.164 Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4CIPrA32085 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 13:25:53 -0500 Received: from fatcity.com (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id IAA97694; Mon, 12 May 2003 08:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b72/bab) via UUCP id 00596B4D; Mon, 12 May 2003 08:07:12 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:07:12 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Glenn Stauffer Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: Glenn Stauffer Subject: Re: Slightly off subject - UniData DB Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 72; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: > Does, or has, anyone worked with IBM's UniData DB? Positives and > negatives? Where is this product going? Any comments whatsoever. > > Thanks, > Ken Janusz, CPIM I've worked with a number of the pre-IBM variants of this database family. Most of these systems were ports from the PICK OS, where the unidata ancestry originates. IBM picked up Unidata when they acquired Informix. Informix bought out (or merged with) Ardent, the company that sold the Unidata database and associated tools, back in 1999/2000. My understanding is that Informix's main interest in Ardent was their data mining technology and much of the Unidata technology was never of great interest to them. There are still a fair number of customers in the educational market where a family of college administrative systems used this database and, from what I see, IBM is committed to providing long-term support to those customers. I wouldn't commit to developing an application using this database or commit to a job supporting one if you care about future prospects since I'd bet that the Unidata market is shrinking more or less slowly these days though I'm sure there is a niche or two where it is still popular. Glenn Stauffer -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Glenn Stauffer INET: stauffer@swarthmore.edu Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).