DE wrote:

As you will never bet on informix again, you have bet on different horses?

And that's why you have to spend so much energy in this forum (news
group) to make sure that Informix will never get near winning
again, because that would mean you could loose your current bets?

If Informix would be as dead as you pronounce it, why would you then
again and again have to state the obvious with so much effort?
In your place I wouldn't even bother anymore. The effort that you put
in here somehow contradicts what you seem so convinced of.

With what idea have you then moved on?
I guess your last sentence above doesn't really make a lot of sense.
You wanted to say "I hadn't moved on with ..."?
Sometimes a single letter makes quite a difference ...

Cheers,
Martin
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Martin Fuerderer wrote:

Other products continue to feed my family, Informix does not. I barely
note it on my resume anymore.


I hope it does succeed, but I'm convinced it will not. It is tragic.
There seems to be proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Informix will
never be anything more than just a "legacy" product, as only a handful
of customers are using it. But I don't think I spend that much energy
in this newsgroup, it only looks that way because most of the people
here that post anything, don't go beyond one or two sentences.


It is no effort to continue living with a bad habit. And as long as the
bandwidth is unlimited, I can say whatever I want. Besides, if you see
the denial of reality here, it is astonishing. It's difficult not to
speak up.

I couldn't agree more. It is a huge contradiction, a conflict in my
life. :-)



You are so correct. As I stated, it's like quitting smoking. You want
to stop but it's very very difficult. You know it's bad for you, it has
no redeeming quality and yet you smoke anyway. Informix is a bad habit
for me, I don't get any benefits out of it, yet I hope against hope that
somebody with some competence inside IBM will do the right thing and market this
product. But I know it's a lost cause.