Re: informix market share

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:10:30 -0800
Message-ID: <7-ednTNhjdnt8RXeRVn-jw@comcast.com>

"xiaoxin" <lixiaoxinwb_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1133003668.009582.121010_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> I'm an Oracle DBA. The vendor of our current application is helpless.
> We are looking for a new one. The one my manager like most is based on
> informix/linux because of the application's functionalities. I try to
> convince him that moving to informix now isn't a good idea.
>
> Any help are appreciated.
>
> BTW, please don't use any technical points such as multiversioning and
> nonblocking reads. I need something that managers are interested in.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaoxin
>

IBM owns Informix. IBM has created DB2. Informix and DB2 compete for the same customers. Having 2 development.QA, etc. teams is costly. Informix is being sunsetted. (wouldn't you if you were IBM)

Why would you want to go with a product that is being sunsetted? Jim Received on Sat Nov 26 2005 - 08:10:30 CST