对于数据库厂商来说,1997年不是一个好年。评论家仍认为:数据库的发展已经在逐渐减速,数据库技术变革已走向消亡,数据库市场只是一个商品市场。Informix 服务器产品市场资深经理 Nasir F.Ameireh 却不这么认为:“我们依旧致力于数据库市场,当我们的竞争对手转向其它领域的时侯,我们在数据库产品上的投入一如既往.” For database vendors, 1997 is not a good year. Critics still believe that the development of the database has been slowing down, and that the technical changes in the database have been dying out. The database market is just a commodity market. Nasir F.Ameireh, senior manager of Informix server product market, did not think so: “We are still committed to the database market. When our competitors turn to other fields, our investment in database products is as usual.”