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RE: Anybody out there working at IBM ?

Posted By: Federico \(Fred\) Hubbard
Date: Thursday, 8 April 2004, at 1:22 p.m.

In Response To: Anybody out there working at IBM ? (tbarth@barth-rz.de)

Hi Torsten and all, I don't work for IBM but am on the IIUG Board and will
try to assist a little without disputing that IBM could do more to promote
the Informix product portfolio.

Have a look at this web page:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/portfolio/. It contains
the information you are requesting in various levels of detail.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,

Fred Hubbard
IIUG Board of Directors


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Of tbarth@barth-rz.de
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 6:57 AM
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Subject: Anybody out there working at IBM ? [318]

Hello everybody,

I had a interesting telephone call from a kollegue working as a service
provider
for informix products. He is very angry about all the (non existing)
information,
that can (not) be found about "What's going on with informix ?" He also
knows
about what Janet said, but he does not know what will be in two, three or
four
years. He stated out to give the advice to his customers better to move to
oracle
when they are looking for a solid, good db product.
Okay, this is only one voice, but ibm has to be more aggressive in saying
where
to go tomorrow. For me informix is a fantastic product !! The biggest dbs
are used
for SAP ERP and BW. SAP says it does not matter, what is running "below".
This
can be true for many other customers.
I cannot imagine ibm is willing to loose all customers to oracle or mysql
or whatever.
WE are still looking for java and unicode support for SAP, but it is still
NOT available.

1 Billion $ might be not really much money for ibm, but loosing cutomers
can not be
their real target. This will be much more expensive.


Regards

Torsten Barth

Certified Solution Consultant mySAP SCM (OF)
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• Anybody out there working at IBM ?
  tbarth@barth-rz.de -- Wednesday, 14 April 2004, at 4:25 a.m.

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