Does anyone know precisely what is supposed to happen by June 16/17, 2006?
Or why someone suspects something will happen by that date?


Christine Normile
Informix Dynamic Server Product Manager
IBM Software Group
Information Management

Email Christine.Normile@us.ibm.com


Captain Pedantic said:
>
> "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message
> news:dluvrf$pdt$1@news.xmission.com...
>>
>> It's amazing what you can turn up on google:
>>
>> 'Daniel A. Morgan Jun 17 2001, 1:17 am
>> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
>
>> So, I wonder who this nebbish is, and whether he's counting down the 206
>> days till IBM discontinues support for Informix as an independent
>> product.
>>
>> Because he couldn't be wrong, now could he?
>
> He did actually say " ...is still being *marketed* ..." (my emphasis).
> Also, it's actually 207 days until 17/06/2006.

Well, duh! But he did say that it would already be over by the 17th, so
the 16th is the last day for it to happen. So there. p

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Bye now,
Obnoxio
sending to informix-list

Christine Normile wrote:
> Does anyone know precisely what is supposed to happen by June 16/17, 2006?
> Or why someone suspects something will happen by that date?
>
>
> Christine Normile
> Informix Dynamic Server Product Manager
> IBM Software Group
> Information Management
>

I really don't. And as far as I know IDS 7 (That's a real dinosaur!)
will be supported up to 2008... wow... no... September 2009 (
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...s/731-eos.html )

This is something Oracle doesn't do... I'm sitting at a customer which
of course also uses Oracle, and they currently have applications using
unsupported versions of Oracle Database, because they didn't certify
their applications to run on newer versions...

And if you ask me, IBM is doing wrong... I'm tired of hitting bugs that
are corrected at 9 or 10... And we keep giving patches to the
customer... When I say to the customer "you should move...." they say
"why? You'll support this for ages!"... But they moved to newer versions
of Oracle... why? Because they were forced!

Regards.