Simon Riggs wrote:
> IBM have previously bought Informix (who bought Illustra, RedBrick,
> Cloudscape) and Oracle have previously bought DEC RDB, so both have
> track record of successful competitor take-overs. None of those take-
> overs has led to a product actually surviving.
Informix to some degree still exists (as a product, not as a company).
true, it hasn't actually been enhanced to any significant degree since
the IBM acquisition, but here at the day job we have rather a large
informix installation which is certainly supported.
so it's hard to actually buy informix these days, but ibm hasn't
entirely abandoned the legacy customer base.
richard
(i'd rather be doing postgresql, but right this minute
informix work pays the bills)