Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Results of Informix-TURBO query  (really: Who Shot Turbo?)
Summary: rumors are *so* fun
Message-ID: <714@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 01:46:10 GMT
References: <711@vsi.UUCP> <235@infmx.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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 :-)

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