Reuter's article - - - IFMX a mainframe company

#1

Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

Here's the link . . .
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle....ryID=3408 733

I didn't know that Informix was a mainframe company . . . .8-)

#2

Well --- we do run on zOS Linux. So I guess that we're now a mainframe
database. ;-)

M.P.

"John Carlson" <john_carlson (AT) whsmithusa (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

Here's the link . . .

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle....ryID=3408 733

I didn't know that Informix was a mainframe company . . . .8-)

#3

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:15:47 GMT, "Madison Pruet" <mpruet (AT) comcast (DOT) net>
wrote:

Quote:

Well --- we do run on zOS Linux. So I guess that we're now a mainframe
database. ;-)

M.P.

Makes sense . . . . look who bought the company . . . .

doesn't IBM mean I Buy Mainframes <?????>> 8-)

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"John Carlson" <john_carlson (AT) whsmithusa (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:dd3vlvsnd9ujsj8etlvaddt67adnpa7uvj (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...
Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

Here's the link . . .

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle....ryID=3408 733

I didn't know that Informix was a mainframe company . . . .8-)

#4

I see quite often some people refer to anything that is not a Wintel box as
a "mainframe", i.e. including all the Unix servers out there...

Hal Maner
M Systems International, Inc.
www.msystemsintl.com

"John Carlson" <john_carlson (AT) whsmithusa (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

Here's the link . . .

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle....ryID=3408 733

I didn't know that Informix was a mainframe company . . . .8-)

#5

John Carlson wrote:

Quote:

doesn't IBM mean I Buy Mainframes <?????>> 8-)

"It's Better Manually", actually.

#6

Well you can call Informix a Mainframes company now that we have released
Informix IDS 9.40 on Z-series Linux.

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Obnoxio The Clown wrote:

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John Carlson wrote:

doesn't IBM mean I Buy Mainframes <?????>> 8-)

"It's Better Manually", actually.

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#7

John Carlson wrote:

Quote:

Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

.... and do Oracle have plans to expand their domination of the low-end
database market? 8-)

I knew Informix marketing was bad, but they REALLY undersold their
mainframe products, didn't they! :-)

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#8

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:05:15 +0100, "Mark D. Stock"
<mdstock (AT) mydassolutions (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

John Carlson wrote:

Here's the quote . . . .

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

... and do Oracle have plans to expand their domination of the low-end
database market? 8-)

I'll leave that one . . .

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I knew Informix marketing was bad, but they REALLY undersold their
mainframe products, didn't they! :-)

Less than nothing . . . .hmmmm.

#9

Quote:

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

I heard the engine was rewritten in cobol for this, but its probably a

viscious rumor spread by the competition.

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#10

Quote:

International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N unseated Oracle as the
overall leader in total new database software sales with its
acquisition of mainframe database vendor Informix in 2001. The
company, along with Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O , has also been making
gains at the low-end of the modern database market that Oracle has
dominated.

I heard the engine was rewritten in cobol for this, but its probably a

viscious rumor spread by the competition.

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