Re: Oracle vs. Informix

Keith,

if you are truly running on Sun OS (not Solaris) then you may want to stick with Informix. Oracle has desupported the Sun OS operating system. The last known Oracle version to work was 7.3.3 (7.3.4 had several show stopper bugs) which was desupported in December of 98. The only way to run the newer, supported versions of Oracle (7.3.4, 8.0.5, 8.1.5, etc) is to migrate to Solaris.

Just wanted you to know.

Thanks,
Gene...

Keith Sharp wrote in message <01beee3e$b453dad0$9e10a8a5_at_emc2369>...
>I am in the process of analyzing databases for a new document imaging
>system. We currently use Informix but management is wanting to explore
>solutions by Oracle.
>We will have approx. 450 users, possible 125 concurrent users and probably
>40-50 simultaneous DB calls.
>The database currently has 5.7 million rows with BLOB data averaging 40K
>each, and an optical storage manager.
>It will be a 3-tier client server environment with a 3rd party app handling
>all optical/magnetic migration.
>We operate on Sun OS.
>
>Can anyone with both Oracle and INformix exposure give me some feedback and
>opinions. I am looking at both the workgroup and enterprise solutions for
>both, but it appears enterprise will better suit us.
>
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 18:29:35 CDT