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To: Howard Armstrong who wrote (10054)	3/25/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Jeff Meredith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

Illustra was a terrible product. They have a lot of nerve accusing IFMX of ripping THEM off ... it was the other way around don't you think informix knew the strengths and limitations of the illustra product prior to the acquisition? they didn't pay for the product, they paid for the technology and the people. it was the tech. transfer that transformed the 7.x product line into IDS w/UDO. informix was nowhere near accomplishing this prior to the illustra deal. jeff

To: Howard Armstrong who wrote (10054)	3/25/1998 3:47:00 PM
From: DZOO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14631

>terrible memory leak bugs< Could you explain what this is? I'm a hardware jock and I've never heard the term before.

To: Howard Armstrong who wrote (10054)	3/25/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: investorgal	Respond to of 14631

Howard, I'm missing your point. Everything you say is true but has nothing to do with the merger of Illustra and IFMX. The Ingres engine was being ripped out from the start and being replaced with the IFMX engine. That was a primary technical reason for the merger, to get the extensibility of Illustra on a enterprise quality RDBMS engine. The extensible portion of Illustra, which you don't refer to, has nothing to do with Ingres. This was the part that became the extension to DSA that became IUS.