Informix seeks developers

A new article written by David Norfolk a senior analyst at Bloor Research can be found here:

Bloor: Informix seeks developers

Interesting to notice is that for Mr. Norfolk, as well as for many others, IBM's positioning of IDS and DB2 overlaps and isn't really understandable.

Why making it so complicated IBM ? Position the products clearly according to their strengths:

• IDS for:
  
  • Critical, high volume OLTP systems requiring outstandig availability, scalability and reliablity
  • Environments that need a real cluster data server with shared-disk support that enables an always on solution
  • Mass deployments with thousands of distributed database instances
  • Embedded Solutions requiring a DBMS running in stealth mode
  • Distributed Systems requiring sophisticated, well integrated replication solutions
  • Applications requiring excellent extensibility features inside the DBMS
  • Environments with limited DBA resources
  • MAC OS centered applications/environments that need a highly reliable and efficient data store
• DB2 for datawarehouses and XML centered environments