Comparative between DB2, Informix and Oracle

Hi,

My company uses Informix as corporative database. As experienced DBA of the company, I have that to make a study comparing Oracle, Informix and DB2 databases and suggesting new alternatives. I have 10 years of experience with Oracle, 2-3 year with DB2 UDB and few experience with Informix (there are anothers DBAs that manage Informix here). Anyone have any kind of comparative ? Or personal opinions that whom good experience with DBs.

My objective is not to generate flame wars !!! An argument very used by the development team is the facility use of Informix 4GL, mainly with batch programs. Which are the alternatives to the 4GL for Oracle?

Thanks,

Marcelo Wotfe
DBA Senior
São Paulo - SP - Brazil Received on Mon Apr 11 2005 - 10:20:53 CDT