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Re: PeopleSoft on Informix

Posted By: Fernando Nunes
Date: Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 8:54 p.m.

In Response To: PeopleSoft on Informix (Peter.Logan@spartannash.com)

Although I'm from IBM, my comment MUST NOT be taken as an IBM position or
statement.
I have no authority to do that. This is just my personal thoughts.

Whenever an application vendor decides do de-support a database that's
their own decision.
In theory the database vendor could possible try to avoid that if it
assumed the costs of that support... which of course could make some sense,
but those costs would have to be mapped in money and a ROI would have to be
calculated and there's also the question on who calculates those costs...

And then, when the application vendors are also database vendors, the
picture becomes even more complex....
Oracle considers that there are not enough customer to justify support for
Informix on peopleSoft, but it supports Informix for WebLogic and ODI for
example...I suppose only they have the numbers that can justify this.

In the end, it's the customer that suffers. Assuming they feel confortable
with their current database, a change always means some "pain".
Oracle and SAP should know by now this... SAP lost some customers because
some of the ones who were forced to change from Informix started by
changing the database and eventually changed SAP also for Oracle
applications following some generous offer from Oracle.
Oracle may of course expect these customers will move to Oracle database.
And the risk of loosing the application side of things is deduced for
informix customers. it may not be the case for Sybase customers.... since
Sybase now belongs to SAP they may provide a "different solution" to their
Sybase/Peoplesoft customers....

Art's suggestion seems the way to go... although after seeing what Oracle
attempted with itanium, I doubt it will work....

Regards.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Peter.Logan@spartannash.com <
Peter.Logan@spartannash.com> wrote:

> Wondering if anyone from IBM can comment on Oracle's decision to no longer
> support Informix as noted in the attached PDF? I know this was rumored a
> couple of years ago. Just curious if IBM is working on attempting to have
> Oracle continue to support Informix.
>
> Thanks in advance for any information ....
>
> Peter Logan
> Database Administrator
> SpartanNash INC.
> Office: 616/878-8309
> Mobile: 616/304-9672
> E-Mail: peter.logan@spartannash.com
>
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Fernando Nunes
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Messages In This Thread

• PeopleSoft on Informix
  Peter.Logan@spartannash.com -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 5:07 p.m.
  • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
    Art Kagel -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 5:15 p.m.
    • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
      Peter.Logan@spartannash.com -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 5:18 p.m.
  • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
    Peter.Logan@spartannash.com -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 5:28 p.m.
    • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
      Art Kagel -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 5:56 p.m.
      • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
        Peter.Logan@spartannash.com -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 6:26 p.m.
  • Re: PeopleSoft on Informix
    Fernando Nunes -- Thursday, 11 June 2015, at 8:54 p.m.

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