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To: Howard Armstrong who wrote (11061)	6/14/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: H. Wai	Respond to of 14631

Garden Ridge's Informix-Based Data Warehouse. informix.com

To: Howard Armstrong who wrote (11061)	6/15/1998 3:44:00 AM
From: MJ	Respond to of 14631

OK Howard, I've got a few minutes...I'll bite even for the benefit of others though I know you won't be convinced... > Here is an explanation of the Informix product line: I value your explanation as you obviously are a real fan. > "Informix > Dynamic Server" is the version 7.3 relational database product. > It's a nice product, but MSFT and IBM have driven prices and margins > down for RDBMS, and ORCL remains the market leader. True, prices are down at the low-end, but Informix is not a key player there. I'd argue there has not yet been much price erosion at the top-end...(apart from some specific markets where Oracle has devalued licences by offering huge discounts for large up-front commitments- eg. Telco). > "Universal Data Option" is what used to be called Informix- > Universal Server 9.0. It is actually a different version of > the database server, not an add-on.(It is marketed as an add-on > to copy Oracle's product marketing strategy.) I understand the products have now merged. If Informix is shipping 2 products still it won't be for long...probably just a timing issue. Even if they aren't the code is 100% compatable. > There are a few datablades available for it (geospatial, text, > images), but the 3rd-party datablade program has stagnated for > over a year due to a lack of sales of this product. Wrong. Mapinfo, Verity, ESRI, Visual Image Retrievel, Video Foundation, Excalibur Text, Excalibur Image, Geodetic, Timeseries, Messaging, Fulcrum, Web, Statistics, + a host of third-party blades (molecular analysis, image matching, etc) ARE available. Perhaps there was a slowing of availability last year, but they seem to be rolling out now. > There is a version of Universal Data Option for NT, but the > original datablade/Illustra stuff was designed for UNIX. So was Oracle's (or more likely VMS!) > "Extended Parallel Option" looks like the old XPS 8.0 product ... > again, a completely different version of the server that runs on > massively parallel machines like the IBM SP and the Sequent NUMA. > The market for massively parallel machines never materialized, > and therefore sales of XPS never materialized either. Try telling major Telcos there is no MPP. Add Sun, HP, DEC, Pyramid etc. to this list. Informix has multiple installations of SP (in particular) successfully running. Check out the latest press release for one example. > "Advanced Decision Support Option" is the old Stanford Technology > Metacube product (an OLAP product acquired by IFMX in 1995) > along with what looks to be decision support indexing capability. No, it's the bits of the old XPS product that were specific for data warehousing including bit-map indexing, general-key indexing etc. Now they are an add-on option. MetaCube is a separate OLAP product. Ok, that'll do. Any more? MJ