RollForward Wizard said:
>
> Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
>> RollForward Wizard said:
>>> This is awesome work. I think it touches on some very salient points,
>>> especially regarding virtual processors and threading. It is amazing
>>> that Oracle technology could have gone so wrong despite the amount of
>>> money they have as a company, and how they could not come up with a
>>> better engine--or why haven't they dumped the current engine and made a
>>> new one that is actually better than any other product. Simply
>>> amazing.
>>> All that money and they can't find anyone to make their technology
>>> better
>>> than it is. They must have their priorities wrong, spending so much
>>> money
>>> on sales and marketing. :-)
>>>
>>> RE: http://www.IIUG.org/resources/articl...sOracle10g.pdf
>>
>> You're pushing on an open door, trust me. I don't think there's a single
>> person who uses Informix who doesn't wish that Informix and IBM were as
>> effective at creating brand awareness for Informix as Oracle is.
>>
>> And then you'll find plenty of people who say Oracle don't spend ENOUGH
>> on
>> sales and marketing.
>>
>
> If you're IBM or any company, you have to have something to sell, and a
> market
> that likes what you sell. If there isn't a market for Informix, no matter
> how
> great it is, you are not going to sell Informix to anyone. IBM, Oracle,
> and
> Microsoft all sell a lot of software, some products more than others. At
> the
> end of the day, they look at what they sell, and make decisions, just like
> any
> business would. If it doesn't make money, why would they continue to push
> it?
>
> Oracle and Microsoft by the way do an excellent job of putting some pretty
> wrapping
> around all their products, something that is instructive for all of us.
>
> What does IBM need to do specifically to sell more Informix? Or is it
> less about
> "selling" Informix, and just making it more prominent, or visible, or
> legit, or ???
>
> What do IBM need to do with Informix that gives the product its' proper
> place?
>
> New books?
>
> New co-op developer programs? ( IBM DB2 and Zend PHP Core for example )
>
> New promotions?
>
> New advertising?
>
> New Web Seminars?
>
> Road shows?
>
> More White Papers?
>
> An Informix Magazine?
>
> Bumper Stickers?
>
> Kiosk/Appliance PCs with Informix pre-installed?
>
> Redbooks?
>
> Boat Races?
>
> Press Releases?

Yes.

--
Bye now,
Obnoxio

"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ` dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
- Coluche

did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all
columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this
has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record
and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent
table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila,
relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit
controversial among modellers.

--r937, dbforums.com
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