RE: Oracle vs. Informix debate

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Alan,

Fully support what Frank says. Many, many moons ago, I used to be in a Database benchmarking group before and it was part of my job to run the same benchmark on Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Ingres databases. Oracle almost always was at the bottom of the list, but not by a factor of 10. I am sure that you can tune the benchmark up (although you may have problems convincing damagement to invest in resources for this...)

Your best bet (anyway) is to show the results of the TPC-C benchmark at 'www.tpc.org'. It is a straight battle between Oracle and M$-SQL Server only. I don't remember Informix figuring in that list at all. These are industry standard, accepted benchmark.

The cost of lost business (no skill-pool available, time & materials to migrate to Informix, your own recruitment, etc.) needs to be considered before jumping onto the Informix wagon.

Hth,
John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

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** Opinions expressed here are solely mine and not necessarily those of Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 03:19:06 CDT