IBM to buy Informix

On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

IBM to buy Informix:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lthd

The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was that the people of
Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle and Micro$oft were
all over them.
Looks like the romour was right! :-)

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> said:

IBM to buy Informix:

Scaring them out of the market, one at a time... ;-)

- Richard Huxton

I think it the acquisition may be worth IBM's while just to gain Informix's
high profile clients. IBM makes an unbelievable amount of money on
services. I worked for a company who paid IBM a million dollars for some
early phase requirements gathering. All that money, and they didn't even
number the pages of their documentation!

-r

At 07:28 PM 4/24/01 -0400, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

Mart�n Marqu�s wrote:

On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

IBM to buy Informix:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lthd

The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was that the people of
Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle and Micro$oft were
all over them.
Looks like the romour was right! :-)

They couldn't sell it because it was a crappy product. I have no idea
why IBM would be willing to plunk down a bil for Informix.

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Probably to rip out some really good guts that it does have and put
them into DB2.

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:32:33 +0000 (UTC), jks@selectacast.net (Joseph
Shraibman) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

Mart���n Marqu���s wrote:

On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

IBM to buy Informix:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lthd

The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was that the people of
Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle and Micro$oft were
all over them.
Looks like the romour was right! :-)

They couldn't sell it because it was a crappy product. I have no idea
why IBM would be willing to plunk down a bil for Informix.

Doesn't matter much. If IBM was marketing windows you probably wouldn't
see it on the shelves six months later.

Vince.
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For their customers. They actually have quite a few, even though
it's a 'crappy product'. And Informix do objects (I believe), so
they may have some interesting ideas in their code (in the bowels of
the engine, if not in the user tools ;-)

MikeA

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From: Joseph Shraibman [mailto:jks@selectacast.net]
Sent: 25 April 2001 00:29
To: PostgreSQL-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] IBM to buy Informix

Martín Marqués wrote:

On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

IBM to buy Informix:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lt
hd

The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was

that the people of

Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle

and Micro$oft were

all over them.
Looks like the romour was right! :-)

They couldn't sell it because it was a crappy product. I
have no idea
why IBM would be willing to plunk down a bil for Informix.

--
Joseph Shraibman
jks@selectacast.net
Increase signal to noise ratio. http://www.targabot.com

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Mart�n Marqu�s wrote:

On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:

IBM to buy Informix:

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lthd

The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was that the people

of

Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle and Micro$oft

were

all over them.
Looks like the romour was right! :-)

They couldn't sell it because it was a crappy product. I have no idea
why IBM would be willing to plunk down a bil for Informix.

I don't want to argue against you, so don't flame please.

I'm using Informix DBMS since 1993 ( from Online 5.x and SE to IIF-2000 ),
I've also used ( developed application for Oracle and DB2 ), so I can to
compare them.
My opinion ( moreover my experience ) - Informix Servers smaller, smarter an
faster.

However business is the game where a really crappy products win frequently.
Take a look at M$ for example. Informix has ( had ) very nice products but
very bad marketing.

Good luck.

Sergey.