The job market is one big factor in my low support of the Informix product. I remember the days in the late 90’s, before IBM acquired them, when the company went through three CEO’s in three years. Eventually one of them, Phil White, went to prison…. When my days at Dillon Companies, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kroger Company, were coming to an end in 2001, I was busy searching the job boards like Dice.com.
I knew the job market for an Informix DBA was limited but I had no idea how harsh it would be. After a few months on severance pay I was able to find a job as an Oracle DBA. Today, I still have my Dice.com account send me daily job postings based on two agents. One is set up for Informix and the other looks for Oracle jobs. About 99% of the time the Informix job agent returns the following message.
Sorry, no jobs posted today!!!
The Oracle agent returns something every day…
I knew the job market for an Informix DBA was limited but I had no idea how harsh it would be. After a few months on severance pay I was able to find a job as an Oracle DBA. Today, I still have my Dice.com account send me daily job postings based on two agents. One is set up for Informix and the other looks for Oracle jobs. About 99% of the time the Informix job agent returns the following message.
Sorry, no jobs posted today!!!
The Oracle agent returns something every day…
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