Re: IBM to buy Informix

Probably to rip out some really good guts that it does have and put
them into DB2.

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:32:33 +0000 (UTC), jks@selectacast.net (Joseph
Shraibman) wrote:

>Mart�n Marqu�s wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 24 Abr 2001 18:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > IBM to buy Informix:
>> >
>> >    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5705678.html?tag=st.it.9500.lthd
>>
>> The rumour was there about a month ago. The problem was that the people of
>> Informix didn't know how to sell there product, so Oracle and Micro$oft were
>> all over them.
>> Looks like the romour was right! :-)
>
>They couldn't sell it because it was a crappy product.  I have no idea
>why IBM would be willing to plunk down a bil for Informix.
>
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>Joseph Shraibman
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