M Segel wrote:

>>Not kidding. The reason for looking at the OLTP marketplace, take a
>>look at my list above, is that they are spinning the fact that they
>>have no chance in the apps market: They are ceding it.
>>
>
> Dude!
>
> What drugs are you currently taking? I mean are you stealing your kid's
> Ritilin ?sp?, crushing and then snorting it?
>
> There's two different philosophies at work.
> Leisure suit Larry has always taken on the application market. They compete
> with their partners. And do so openly.

Correct ... and no doubt will continue to do so. But if the marketsize
is too small they are not going to invest money in it. I will be very
surprised if there are Informix or Sybase versions of most commercial
apps (SAP, PeopleSoft, eBusiness Suite, JD Edwared, Siebel) in 10 years.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:53:12 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org>
wrote:

>M Segel wrote:
>
>>>Not kidding. The reason for looking at the OLTP marketplace, take a
>>>look at my list above, is that they are spinning the fact that they
>>>have no chance in the apps market: They are ceding it.
>>>
>>
>> Dude!
>>
>> What drugs are you currently taking? I mean are you stealing your kid's
>> Ritilin ?sp?, crushing and then snorting it?
>>
>> There's two different philosophies at work.
>> Leisure suit Larry has always taken on the application market. They compete
>> with their partners. And do so openly.
>
>Correct ... and no doubt will continue to do so. But if the marketsize
>is too small they are not going to invest money in it. I will be very
>surprised if there are Informix or Sybase versions of most commercial
>apps (SAP, PeopleSoft, eBusiness Suite, JD Edwared, Siebel) in 10 years.


How many of the afore-mentioned packages have been bought by Oracle?
One could say that at least two of the packages themselves may not
exist in 10 years -- PeopleSoft and JD Edwards . . . .

JWC

John Carlson wrote:

> How many of the afore-mentioned packages have been bought by Oracle?
> One could say that at least two of the packages themselves may not
> exist in 10 years -- PeopleSoft and JD Edwards . . . .
>
> JWC

Wether that is true or not it won't affect the survival or demise of
Informix. Informix is soon to join the ranks of other "they were once
well loved" databases: For example Pick which can still be purchased.
We have one company here in Seattl still using it to build grocery
store inventory systems.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan@x.washington.edu
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