If I remember correctly, the biggest concern of the board was protecting
the IIUG members personal information,
and IBM had to collect that information for some legal reasons so there
was a conflict of responsibilities.

Stuart and the Board work very hard to keep our member information
private.
Which is in line with the Charter:

....
Article XII. CODE OF ETHICS

A. IIUG membership information shall be kept confidential and shall be
used only as approved by the Board of Directors of the Organization.
....

Hopefully, that was not a secret, but hell, both sides were in the right
in their own way, and a lot of work
was put into it by IBM, and a lot of thought and fairly heated
discussion by the board.


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-----Original Message-----
From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org
[mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jean Georges Perrin
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:39 AM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Informix in the press...


Christine,

In your statement, please substitute "Stuart Litel" by "the IIUG Board
of Directors", also you description of the process lacks quite some
points (and
steps!) and a description of the situation! So please, be honest or
refrain putting such statement in public.

Thanks.

jgp

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:37:05 -0500, Christine Normile wrote
> The version of IDS v10 without the timeout was made available to the
> IIUG
exclusively for IIUG members to download. IBM requires that individuals
register when they want to download a product. Stuart Litel has refused
to make the non-timelimited code available because of this IBM
restriction (even though IBM was willing to provide the hosting
service.)
>
> It's interesting that you say you have trial code for DB2 that is
non-limited. Could you please provide the link where you obtained it?
>
> On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Double Echo wrote:
> eric@herber-consulting.de wrote:
> Sometimes wonders take a little bit longer:
>
> http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release...ease_id=154242
>
> A press release from IBM mentioning Informix. Great !!
>
>
>
> Excellent!
>
> Now, how about taking the 90-day timeout feature out of the download
> for Informix. I'm excited about Informix, interested in the product,
> so I go to download it like DB2.
>
> I noticed DB2 does not have the 90-day timeout. I want the full
> download for Informix just like DB2, no timeout, same thing as if I
> bought it. Do I have the IIUG to thank for the 90-day timeout?
>
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> Christine Normile
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>

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