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DE,

I like your medical analogy, but I don't see to what it applies...

Facts:
- IDS license sales (not maintenance) have grown over 20% in Q1 06 and Q2
06.
- New unique (and impressive) solutions (<--- look @ final S) are being
developed on (and only) IDS because it's the only database capable of its
unique feature set.
- New customers! New users!
- Partners to demo applications and be proud of being Informix partners.
- Consultants to show-up at events.
- Commitment to major release every 18 months: and they (IBM) STICK to it,
Cheetah's the next one.
- New features provoke happiness on DBAs faces (as I am not one, I know it's
pretty difficult to get one to laugh before he/she had a couple of beers).
- Pragmatic XML in vNext...
- One sad thing: the end of ISA :-)... Replaced by another web-based tool,
providing more features, more reporting capabilities...

Where do I got all that from? It's all public, from an IBM Software Group
meeting in Paris. They don't hide Informix in Informix-only event, it is
highlighted... I did a small report here:
http://www.jgp.net/index.php?option=...52&Itemi d=28


Is that a sign of anemia? If yes, please give me a shot! Also look at the
number of newbies questions in this forum and others.

Is it the sign of a dying product? Well, not for me Sir!

Can IBM do a better job? Sure! They can always progress. They are listening.

Did Informix do a good marketing job in its time? I'll let you answer... I
am not sure that doing a new billboard war would do us any good.

Seriously, the situation, for us Informix users, is far better than it used
to be 3-4 years ago, and I think it is better than 6-7 years ago.

jgp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-
> bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 03:12
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Infomix test databases for migration to SQL Server - please
> help
>
>
> I couldn't agree more with your post.
>
> This product is on a respirator, waiting to die. It needs all the help
> it can get. In fact I'm guessing ( a stretch here :-) that there will be
> no new product launches or announcements till after the first of next
> year for Informix. The last whimpering gasp leaked to one of the trade
> rags last week about "cheetah" created zero buzz like nothing. It's just
> a bunch of nothing. Until there is some kind of serious marketing it's
> 80% of IBM's time with Informix to do nothing and only cater to the top
> 20% who are actually using the product, just to maintain fluid cash flow
> on renewals and paltry if-any new sales. It's not about new sales but
> simply keeping it alive. This is why you don't see any application
> announcements about XYZ company writing apps for Informix--it's not going
> to happen!
>
> bwhahahahhahahahahaahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
>
> :-)
>
>
> Tam OShanter wrote:
> > Wait a minute,
> >
> > You guys have been most helpful to me in the past, and I have
> appreciated
> > the open exchange of information on the group.
> >
> > So, why are you so upset by this fellows question?
> >
> > If IFX is a superior product, you should be encouraging this guy to do
> what
> > he's doing in the hopes that folks will see that IFX does some things
> much
> > better than SQL Server.
> >
> > I didn't think there was an "accepted topic" list here.
> >
> > I work on Oracle, Pervasive, SQL Server, Sybase and Informix, and
> embrace
> > the relative strengths and weaknesses of each.
> >
> > BTW, who said that you speak for everyone on the group when you say "we
> do
> > not want to debate here".
> >
> > Pretty arrogant if you ask me, and that kind of attitude doesn't exactly
> > server to spread the good news about what a strong product Informix
> really
> > is.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents. Hope my post isn't "banned" because I mentioned other
> > RDBMS.
>
> > Tam.
> >
> >
> > "Jean Georges Perrin" <jgp@iiug.org> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.14.1159528177.3460.informix-list@iiug.org...
> >> Gil,
> >>
> >> We were ok to help you have your 4gl app work with SQL Server, as it
> >> relates
> >> to an Informix product (4GL). Now, you clearly ask for something that
> we
> >> do
> >> not want to debate here.
> >>
> >> Why the hell would you want to migrate?
> >>
> >> Jgp
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-
> >>> bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Gil Lapid
> >>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 03:19
> >>> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> >>> Subject: Infomix test databases for migration to SQL Server - please
> help
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on a database migration tool from Informix to SQL Server.
> >>> I'm looking for Informix databases (schema only no data needed) that
> >>> I can try my tool on and take them as a test case.
> >>>
> >>> If anyone can provide me with a database schemas that are complex
> >>> enough to be a test case(SPL,triggers,views ..) for the tool - that
> >>> would be great. The more the better.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot,
> >>>
> >>> Gil
> >>>
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> >
> >
>
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