On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> As I have said elsewhere, Informix is probably a poor database to emulate
> since they are effectively an old dead-end fork of the Ingres/Postgres code,
> and have already been "mined" for most of the improvements they made.
>
With informix 7.0 they rewrote the entire thing from the ground up to
remove a bunch of limitations and build a multithreaded engine.
so it isn't so much an old fork anymore.
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