Re:I'm a little confused (Score 1)

Almost--Cloudscape was acquired in 2001 via the Informix buyout, not the 2005 Ascential deal. There were 27 people focused on Cloudscape and within a week of IBM ownership, that number was whittled down to 9, then shuttled over to the DB2 Everyplace team. It took IBM a long time to realize the value of some of those Informix assets (and they still haven't figured out what to do with Red Brick), but they realized that Informix Dynamic Server is still a better-performing OLTP system than DB2 UDB and that Cloudscape has tremendous value all over the place...