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Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive... -posted to the "Informix" group

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 24, 2023 11:28 AM Benjamin Thompson Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive about. I don't know that much about the sales and marketing sides but there is certainly quite a bit of development going on such as Informix v15. To me this web page looks like marketing: www.hcl-software.com/informix It's rather strange that two companies have no interest in selling a product to new customers: if this is true it would be good to have some insight from IIUG as to why this is, especially on the HCL side where there is no competing product (DB2). I understood from a presentation a few years ago that HCL planned to integrate Informix into its own applications and in as much as I pay attention to these things, HCL Unica now supports Informix. I suspect part of this relates to no Informix talk being selected for the IBM TechXchange conference but when I look at the web site for this conference, it seems this isn't quite true: www.ibm.com/community/ibm-techxchange-catalog/... Db2, Netezza, and Informix: What's new and What's next [5375] Product Managers discuss new capabilities and the roadmap for multiple IBM Databases. Session Type: Technology Breakout Tech Tracks: Data Topic: Data Management Industry: Cross Industry Technical Level: Intermediate Level Miran Badzak, Program Director, IBM ------------------------------ Benjamin Thompson ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message Original Message: Sent: Sun July 23, 2023 03:05 AM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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Hi, What do you mean IBM will not sell Informix licenses? WTF I am sure Microsoft,, Oracle, Sybase etc will love to hear that! If IBM... -posted to the "Informix" group

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 26, 2023 8:20 AM David Williams Hi, What do you mean IBM will not sell Informix licenses? WTF I am sure Microsoft,, Oracle, Sybase etc will love to hear that! If IBM were serious about Informix woluldn't they sell licenses? Or would that compete with DB2? NIH. Answers? David. ------------------------------ David Williams ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message Original Message: Sent: Mon July 24, 2023 11:35 AM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive... -posted to the "Informix" group

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 24, 2023 11:28 AM Benjamin Thompson Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive about. I don't know that much about the sales and marketing sides but there is certainly quite a bit of development going on such as Informix v15. To me this web page looks like marketing: www.hcl-software.com/informix It's rather strange that two companies have no interest in selling a product to new customers: if this is true it would be good to have some insight from IIUG as to why this is, especially on the HCL side where there is no competing product (DB2). I understood from a presentation a few years ago that HCL planned to integrate Informix into its own applications and in as much as I pay attention to these things, HCL Unica now supports Informix. I suspect part of this relates to no Informix talk being selected for the IBM TechXchange conference but when I look at the web site for this conference, it seems this isn't quite true: www.ibm.com/community/ibm-techxchange-catalog/... Db2, Netezza, and Informix: What's new and What's next [5375] Product Managers discuss new capabilities and the roadmap for multiple IBM Databases. Session Type: Technology Breakout Tech Tracks: Data Topic: Data Management Industry: Cross Industry Technical Level: Intermediate Level Miran Badzak, Program Director, IBM ------------------------------ Benjamin Thompson ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message: Sent: Sun July 23, 2023 03:05 AM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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ALL - Please vote the below ideas up Hi, If IBM are serious where are the following in Informix? DB2 has them and IBM has owned both code... -posted to the "Informix" group

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 26, 2023 9:26 AM David Williams ALL - Please vote the below ideas up Hi, If IBM are serious where are the following in Informix? DB2 has them and IBM has owned both code bases for over 20 years, what is the delay? Merge DB2 and Informix?  Sure merge them on the Informix code base User level threading so less user->kernel transactions so more efficient Less stack depth for common operations in Informix e.g. Buffered index reads Informix has more advanced extentsions capability than Db2 datablades. Talking about datablades, why does www.ibm.com/docs/vi/informix-servers/... say "Support for blademgr and DataBlade Developers Kit (DBDK) is removed starting Informix Server 14.10.xC6. Standard blades will be autoregistered. You should use SYSBldPrepare() function to register user defined blades." We can still register blades but how do we develop them without the DataBlade Developers Kit? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-479 Add columnar indexes to Informix. - Future consideration Db2,Oracle,SQL Server have these, Sybase (IQ), KDB (Timeseries columar) have these. DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-488 Add MPP/DPF/XPS Clustering to Informix - Future consideration Db2,Oracle,SQL Server (used to be Parallel Data Warehouse) Even Sybase has this with Compute Cluster, where is the Informix Verson, XPS was killed! Sybase in 2019 had no roadmap beyond 2025 and people were saying it would die then and even they had developed  1 database across multiple VMs! DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-489 Informix Purescale - Future consideration Oracle RAC< DB2 Purescale, where is the Informix Version? DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-539 Add Block Indexes to informix - Submitted DB2 MDC has this, even Postgres has BRIN Indexes. DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-540 Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2 - Submitted Oracle has had this for decades, DB2 has MQTs. In multi-machine version MQTs can even be broadcast to each node! ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-541 Add MDC Multidimension Clustering Tables to Informix same as DB2 - Submitted DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-486 NUMA aware memory allocations. - Future consideration DB2, Oracle, SQL Server DB2 has had this for 5 years+, where is the Informix version? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-542 Timeseries support compression - Submitted KDB has had this since at least 2017, how does Informix compete? ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-543 Timeseries support more than 1 concurrent write per container/chunk. - Submitted Heard this was an issues in 2017 or earlier, have not heard it has been fixed. KDB has had this since at least 2017, how does Informix compete? David. ------------------------------ David Williams ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message Original Message: Sent: Mon July 24, 2023 11:35 AM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive... -posted to the "Informix" group

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 24, 2023 11:28 AM Benjamin Thompson Hi David, I have stated before that I wish the IIUG Insider could be more positive. As a customer I think there is quite a bit to be positive about. I don't know that much about the sales and marketing sides but there is certainly quite a bit of development going on such as Informix v15. To me this web page looks like marketing: www.hcl-software.com/informix It's rather strange that two companies have no interest in selling a product to new customers: if this is true it would be good to have some insight from IIUG as to why this is, especially on the HCL side where there is no competing product (DB2). I understood from a presentation a few years ago that HCL planned to integrate Informix into its own applications and in as much as I pay attention to these things, HCL Unica now supports Informix. I suspect part of this relates to no Informix talk being selected for the IBM TechXchange conference but when I look at the web site for this conference, it seems this isn't quite true: www.ibm.com/community/ibm-techxchange-catalog/... Db2, Netezza, and Informix: What's new and What's next [5375] Product Managers discuss new capabilities and the roadmap for multiple IBM Databases. Session Type: Technology Breakout Tech Tracks: Data Topic: Data Management Industry: Cross Industry Technical Level: Intermediate Level Miran Badzak, Program Director, IBM ------------------------------ Benjamin Thompson ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message: Sent: Sun July 23, 2023 03:05 AM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.

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Hi Cindy, I agree with what you're saying about the TechXchange Conference: it's not worth anyone's time if they are looking for Informix...

Informix Post New Message Re: Informix future... Reply to Group Reply to Sender Jul 26, 2023 9:07 AM Benjamin Thompson Hi Cindy, I agree with what you're saying about the TechXchange Conference: it's not worth anyone's time if they are looking for Informix content. I am sceptical about the statement in the editorial, "HCL is not interested in developing, marketing or selling Informix", which I think needs more nuance and filling out with some background information, to permit readers to better judge for themselves what the situation is. I hope no-one takes this comment at face value. AFAIK HCL is doing all three of those things. Could it do more? Maybe. As for "IBM is not interested in developing, marketing or selling Informix" [to new customers] - well that's been discussed in here umpteen times and they've always relied on business partners. Should I read between the lines that neither IBM nor HCL will contribute towards an Informix conference? I got a lot out of the ones I attended in the past. Ben. ------------------------------ Benjamin Thompson ------------------------------   Reply to Group Online   View Thread   Recommend   Forward   Flag as Inappropriate   Original Message Original Message: Sent: Tue July 25, 2023 08:02 PM You are subscribed to "Informix" as paul@oninit.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe.