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), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Shraibman) wrote: >Martín Marqués 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. > >-- >Joseph Shraibman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Increase signal to noise ratio. http://www.targabot.com > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
