aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) (06/10/88)
In article <711@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: > Hiho, > > Note for the Informix trivia buff: My sources tell me that > Informix-TURBO was actually developed by Plexus > Uh, right. Sure surprised the heck out of us. We didn't even have a PORT for a Plexus machine before last December. Was one of your "sources" named Joe Isuzu, by any chance? Did you buy any real estate from these guys? :-] > Informix-TURBO was actually developed by Plexus -- maybe it's OK > after all :-). Wow, somebody else is trying to take credit for Informix-TURBO. Maybe it *is* O.K. after all; would they try to take credit for a *bad* product? > Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TURBO runs even better on a *real* machine :-] (Just kidding, AT&T) > friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl (Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not the company. Besides, everybody else here is too busy rolling on the floor, laughing). -- Alan S. Denney | Informix Software, Inc. | {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Disclaimer: These opinions are mine alone. If I am caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of my actions. Santos' 4th Law: "Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting *dirty* for"
friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (06/13/88)
In article <711@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: > > Note for the Informix trivia buff: My sources tell me that > Informix-TURBO was actually developed by Plexus In article <235@infmx.UUCP>, aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) responds: > > Uh, right. Sure surprised the heck out of us. We didn't even have > a PORT for a Plexus machine before last December. Lucky for me I hedged my statement. I have a friend at Plexus who (I thought) had told me that they had done Turbo under contract with Ifx Corp. I just spoke with him and he said that while Informix indeed did TURBO themselves, Plexus did the network version that presumably will be available from Informix in the future. He mentioned that Plexus got multi-million $ for this, and they recently had to "give them everything we did". I've seen Plexus' XDP stuff and it is very impressive. Disclaimer: my friend is not in the database group at Plexus and said he is not close to those that are. In any case, my initial posting was incorrect, and for that I apologize. Flames from Informix to friedl@vsi.com, I'll summarize and post :-) -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl Nancy Reagan on the Mac-II architecture: "Just say Nu"