> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christine Normile [mailto:Christine.Normile@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:06 AM
> To: Obnoxio The Clown
> Cc: informix-list@iiug.org; owner-informix-list@iiug.org; Captain
Pedantic
> Subject: Re: Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
>
> Does anyone know precisely what is supposed to happen by June 16/17,
2006?
> Or why someone suspects something will happen by that date?
>
Nothing, except that it is exactly five years after Daniel
Morgan prophesied this, "quite frankly if Informix is still being
marketed as an independent product five years from now I'll be shocked."
Accordingly, we all expect Mr. Morgan to be shocked on June 17th.

--EEM

November 23, 1963: Premier of Dr. Who on BBC.

>
> Christine Normile
> Informix Dynamic Server Product Manager
> IBM Software Group
> Information Management
>
> Email Christine.Normile@us.ibm.com
>
>
> Captain Pedantic said:
> >
> > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message
> > news:dluvrf$pdt$1@news.xmission.com...
> >>
> >> It's amazing what you can turn up on google:
> >>
> >> 'Daniel A. Morgan Jun 17 2001, 1:17 am
> >> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> >
> >> So, I wonder who this nebbish is, and whether he's counting down
the
> 206
> >> days till IBM discontinues support for Informix as an independent
> >> product.
> >>
> >> Because he couldn't be wrong, now could he?
> >
> > He did actually say " ...is still being *marketed* ..." (my
emphasis).
> > Also, it's actually 207 days until 17/06/2006.
>
> Well, duh! But he did say that it would already be over by the 17th,
so
> the 16th is the last day for it to happen. So there. p
>
> --
> Bye now,
> Obnoxio
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