"David Cuffee" <dcuffee@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:b4iab.494453$YN5.334104@sccrnsc01...
> Wow, sounds like this is one thread that has been beaten too death,
sneezed
> in, coughed in, crapped in. This has to be one of the worst and nastiest
> debates I have ever read from any newsgroup.

Actually, I didn't read it that way. Which newsgroup do you mean by the
way?

It started off as a "merits" debate but pretty quickly, from an Informix
newsgroup perspective anyway, moved into a debate about the extent to which
IBM is likely to be successful in retaining the Informix users who decide to
abandon Informix. For sure some strong views have been expressed about IBM
as a company, and its database strategy, but is that so bad?