Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Nils.Myklebust_at_idg.no (Nils Myklebust) writes:

>"Ian Sparkes" <sparkes_at_sprintmail.com> wrote:
 

>:In can be done but why would you want to ?
>:
>:As a database Informix is a good product but if you are an Oracle shop
>:already I can't see any reason to switch, as Informix doesn't bring any
>:benefits over Oracle.
 

>Although I am not yet a data warehouse spesialist it does seem like
>Informix bring some significant benefits over Oracle if your
>datawarehouse grows big (hundreds of GB to TB range).
 

>:And before anybody who is in love with Informix flames me .... For the
>:purposes of this question I think it reasonable to work on the premise that
>:both are reasonably equivalent.
 

>I wouldn't do that. Even though they haven't yet deploied to many of
>their Universal Server it is a product far in front of anything Oracle
>have or will have for quite some time. It's fasilities are very
>usefull both in OLTP and datawarehouse environements. True Informix
>have mostly emphazised it's ability to handle new and fancy datatypes.
>However new ways of handling existing datatypes are at least as
>interesting. As a big shop these people should be able to get their
>hands on the Universal Server to try it out.

According to a recent Computerworld (I think) article, a lot already did. They found a lot of it to be vaporware, at best beta.

c Received on Sun Jun 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT