>From: Gerardo Santana <gerardo.santana@gmail.com>

>On Oct 14, 2:34 pm, Carsten Haese <cars...@uniqsys.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 13:15 -0700, da...@smooth1.co.uk wrote:
> > > Pick the current version now and tell users to use that.
> >
> > Thanks, but I'll call that Plan B. I prefer not to force gratuitous
> > upgrades on my users.
>
>
>It surprises me to know there are that many users of old Informix
>versions. DBD::Informix supports very old Informix versions too.
>
>I'm curious, is there a report about how many Informix users are for
>each major release?
>

This is a difficult thing.

Way back when, in the world of Online5, there were a lot of resellers who
couldn't sell maintenance. So the companies that bought products on top of
Online5, never got registered so they became "lost". (Which is why there's
an unknown number of Informix users out there.)

Nobody knows, and maybe the IIUG has the best chance of figuring this out
based on their records.

It would be interesting to see a Ruby or Python replacement to 4GL. (Python
using TCL/Tk could be used for standalone apps and most of the non Gui code
is portable to a web based environment. I've seen a guy's work where he
ties his Python stuff directly to Apache.)

I've become a big fan of Python. I'd be a bigger fan if I didn't have to
rely on cx_Oracle and oracle's stupid concepts of user and temp tables.
(Those who know oracle and IDS know exactly what I mean. ;-)

-G

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