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Hello everybody,

I had a interesting telephone call from a kollegue working as a service
provider
for informix products. He is very angry about all the (non existing)
information,
that can (not) be found about "What's going on with informix ?" He also
knows
about what Janet said, but he does not know what will be in two, three or
four
years. He stated out to give the advice to his customers better to move to
oracle
when they are looking for a solid, good db product.
Okay, this is only one voice, but ibm has to be more aggressive in saying
where
to go tomorrow. For me informix is a fantastic product !! The biggest dbs
are used
for SAP ERP and BW. SAP says it does not matter, what is running "below".
This
can be true for many other customers.
I cannot imagine ibm is willing to loose all customers to oracle or mysql
or whatever.
WE are still looking for java and unicode support for SAP, but it is still
NOT available.

1 Billion $ might be not really much money for ibm, but loosing cutomers
can not be
their real target. This will be much more expensive.


Regards

Torsten Barth

Certified Solution Consultant mySAP SCM (OF)
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Hallo Torsten,

tbarth@barth-rz.de wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I had a interesting telephone call from a kollegue working as a service
> provider
> for informix products. He is very angry about all the (non existing)
> information,
> that can (not) be found about "What's going on with informix ?" He also
> knows
> about what Janet said, but he does not know what will be in two, three or
> four
> years.
See the the thread "An interesting meeting with IBM" by Andrew Hamm in
this group.
And yes there are numerous IBMers following this newsgroup.
Mostly techies I might add.
I find it amusing that the colleague of yours claims to know what Janet
says but not know what happens 2-3 years from now.
Seems more like this person doesn't _believe_ or _trust_ what Janet says.

Gruss nach D-Land
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab