Re: compress vs gzip vs bzip2 (vs pack) - was IDS TRIAL ( not trail) download - now off-topic and degenerating into a rant about the IBM website

Captain Pedantic wrote:
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.19.1135849686.740.informix-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
I can't believe that someone finds IBM's website difficult to use. :o|

Of all the myriad of things I hate about it, perhaps the worst is when trying to find something (sales, support) specific to one's own country or location. I start off in, say, www.ibm.co.uk, click on a couple of likely-looking links and - Hey Presto! - I'm in the worldwide site again, which basically means useless-to-me 1-800 numbers (as "worldwide" is of course synonymous with "American").


Hmmmmm.   Maybe you should try the MySQL site, they're non-American.  Or
even Microsoft, I think they're kind of non-American too.  8-)

Arrrgggghhhhhh!



Yeah, too bad Informix is/was an American product, that really sucks, and to
think that the Europeans are more loyal to Informix than Americans are.  That
is very ironic.    Maybe the IIUG can help you.  :-)  They're international
too.

An IBM UK marketing exec recently told me that there is a UK Informix site set up. I challenge anyone to navigate to it from www.ibm.com or www.ibm.co.uk, i.e. without already knowing the URL. 


Good luck!

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