Re: IBM DB2 VIPER

IBM purchased informix because it was up for sale. Informix a few
years before had purchased Ardent (the owners of Unidata and Universe)
because of a datawarehousing product called Datastage. The revenue
from this product had apparently greatly exceeded the sales from the
databases (datastage used a modified universe engine). The plan was
to port datastage to Informix Online. In the end the top exec's nixed
that idea and created Ascential and tood Datastage with them.
Everything else (Informix, Universe, Unidata, redback, etc) was sold to
IBM. IBM promptly discontinued the informix tools and continues to
this day to support the U2 products.

Just recently it appears that IBM has purchased Datastage and has
merged it into their websphere product.

I was just pining about this in the Openqm forum as I am now being
forced to justify the pick model. I needed to show companies that were
successful with the pick model/application and Datastage is always my
first stop. Tigerlogic is another example (lets see where it goes).
The interesting thing is the key to success is to put any mention of
Pick "in the closet". This is very unfortunate to those of us who need
to convince the boss that people actually do rely on this technology.

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