Re: Comparative between DB2, Informix and Oracle

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:26:53 -0700
Message-ID: <1113247391.623720@yasure>

Neil Truby wrote:
> "FireHawkBr®" <firehawkbr_at_gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns96357D8B7F30Bfirehawkcom_at_204.153.244.170...
>

>>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 !!!

>
>
> Well, there's a world of difference between intention and effect.
>
> As Daniel Morgan said, you might have approached this in a different way.
> Perhaps you could start by identifying some criteria by which you wish to
> compare the products: these might be for example scalability, ease of
> administration, availability of support staff, cost of licensing and support
> renewal ..... : perhaps even give your own tentative ratings and invite
> members of each group to comment on what you've written. Even then you're
> probably going to generate more heat than light.

Exactly. How large an installation? What is the quantity and size of transactions? How many users? User interface? Written in what? Connecting through an App Server? Which one? etc.

Anything less is just baiting the predators.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

Received on Mon Apr 11 2005 - 14:26:53 CDT