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Art S. Kagel
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The really sad thing is that the competition is years behind and they
let it slip
trough their fingers.... techies kick them sales where it hurts; make
'm work....

ER in sqlserver is a joke, in 2005 when one hits a conflict it will
blow up according to the teacher...
HDR in succer server needs a witness another spof great...

obstacle is still front end back end process with a lot of users it
will kill every OS.
they glue it with app servers.. lovely...and their rman is worse then
onarchive...

as said earlier
http://www.informix-zone.com/redbook...-flexible-grid
is a must read.

Superboer.


On 16 jun, 22:08, Art Kagel <art.ka... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

IBM sales are in S&D. Engineers are in SWG IM pillar. Sure there's some cross matrix relationships, however sales is driven by a targeted number andits a combination of Services, Hardware and Software. There was an article about the CEO of SAAS who talked about his partnership with IBM in companies where IBM sold SAS over their own products. IBM sells Oracle and Oracle related services while they own IFMX and DB2.

Jerry Keesee is mad at me because I slammed IBM on all fronts for doing some brain dead moves. Kept telling him to hop a flight to Chicago, visit a couple of remaining customers. (Ooops Sears isn't one of them anymore, right? IFMX customer that is, not IBM customer. 8-o ...) Just stop by, have a cup of joe and shoot the shit. He might learn something. ;-) Never happened. Never will happen. Steve Mills has a better chance of succeeding Sam P... ;-) [Although he's a dark horse in that race if the WSJ has it right...]

Informix could build a better mousetrap but no one will know about it and no one would care.
CIO's are focusing on this thing called 'Big Data' which is mostly 'unstructured data' which is really a misnomer because there is always some structure to the data. (But I digress).
The point is that CIOs, CTOs and other senior execs are looking at how tomanage non traditional data.

You want to talk about 'structured' data? Well there's Oracle or MySQL if your needs are too large. Sorry but even Postgres has more mind share than IFMX or distributed DB2 has in the market place.

So unless you have a game changer, that is to say IFMX has to create something which would be considered a disruptive technology, you will never get the marketplace to listen.

Today's customer wants a solution which is fast, light, and is already mainstream so that they don't look like an idiot.
IBM SWG IM fails to deliver this on so many levels its not funny.
DB2? That's Daddy's mainframe database.
IFMX? Great product lousy marketing. I heard IBM killed it off years ago. Are they still around?
Neteeza? Wow, an appliance. Why should I pay an arm and a leg when I can get this thing called Hadoop?
'Big Sheets' - IBM's answer to Hadoop. Ok, so let me get this straight. It only runs on IBM's JVM, and I can get a 'free' version on Linux if I run 32 bit JVMs? (Note: IBM started with their own release of Hadoop that wasonly on IBM JVM, ran on 32bit JVMs and was a still birth. Hint: you needSun's security and no one runs 32 bit JVMs in a 64 bit Linux world.)

I think you can see the point here. IBM is going down a long path in the wrong direction.

Could they get creative and turn things around? Maybe, but most likely not. Its a culture thing and those leading things in terms of IM are just waiting for their paychecks until retirement.
IBM's culture doesn't do well with disruptive tech unless you're in R&D andeven then, they sit on it.

But hey! What do I know? ... ;-)

Peace out!
-G