... about Quicktime anyway:
"Real & MS & QT give away the client, then charge big $$ for encoding/server software, which users don't realize but video people do"
BZZTTT!!!!
See
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/
for full details, if you don't know already...
And heck, if you are mad about the missing codecs (take that up with Sorenson, not Apple), then stream whatever you want! (Without getting into Open/Free tarbabies, let's just say "source available")
A while ago, Informix acquired a software company called Ardent Software which had a decent database technology portfolio (the Universe RDBMS).
It has (had?) some big customers. Haven't seen any comment on this component of Informix yet.
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... about Quicktime anyway: "Real & MS & QT give away the client, then charge big $$ for encoding/server software, which users don't realize but video people do" BZZTTT!!!! See http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/ for full details, if you don't know already... And heck, if you are mad about the missing codecs (take that up with Sorenson, not Apple), then stream whatever you want! (Without getting into Open/Free tarbabies, let's just say "source available")
A while ago, Informix acquired a software company called Ardent Software which had a decent database technology portfolio (the Universe RDBMS). It has (had?) some big customers. Haven't seen any comment on this component of Informix yet.