Indeep is a ****ing idiot wrote:
> In article <DTA9k.13911$Pl4.2972@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, InDeep says...
>> What customers are actually using Informix besides the handful like
Walmart and
>> Sears?
>
> why do you have to show repeatedly that you are the biggest
> ****ing idiot in this group.
>
Why do you think that you are right?
> If only handful were using informix, then we would not have seen any
> new versions to informix, much less a version like 11.50 which has
> far more features than previous many versions of Informix. You mean
> IBM is clueless to invest in a product used by only Walmart and Sears.
>
I'm not sure that the incremental improvements in Informix are good
enough to sell to the market. I've yet to hear about anything from
outside the
c.d.i community or the IIUG. I believe IBM put money into the product to
retain its existing base, but in the larger picture _outside_ the Informix
community there is absolutely zero buzz or street cred. I've heard more
about Postrges / Green Plum in the last year than anything coming from
IBM.
The improvements that I _have_ heard about speak to the existing customer
base, and in the case of Walmart, they alone generate enough revenue to
pay for improvements. So the thinking that IBM are pouring a lot of money
into Informix is bogus, because nobody has ever even talked about a
broader
base of consumers other than the top few repeated here. There is no
marketing
program, nothing to get developers excited about. The full enterprise
edition
is time-bombed, as if anyone were actually going to use it in a production
context, much less without paying for the license. Nobody has heard of
Informix
so that whole argument is bogus.
So, I know I get under your skin, as well as a lot of the other IDS
sychophants,
but try to see outside the IBM/Informix box, and think about a world
without
Informix. _That_ is the world I live in, still waiting for the dolts at
IBM to
see op****tunity instead of the status quo. Still waiting for Informix to
be
marketed like it should be. I could run circles around the people
marketing
Informix, and get a developer program going. But that is as likely as IBM
actually having a marketing program for IDS.
-ID-
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