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Re: informix market share

From: Madison Pruet <mpruet_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:13:40 -0600
Message-ID: <8t6dnTQ0QMoKshfenZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@comcast.com>

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1133128547.820245_at_yasure...
> Madison Pruet wrote:
> > "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> > news:1133072683.547964_at_yasure...
> >
> >>xiaoxin wrote:
> >>
> >>>The list price of IDS is about 20% more than oracle EE. No one is
> >>>more expensive than oracle, when it comes to database.
> >>
> >>But wouldn't a more accurate comparison of IDS to Oracle be with
> >>Oracle's Standard Edition?
> >
> >
> > Not really. IDS has both HDR and Enterprise Replication as a base part
of
> > the product. Last time I checked, the Oracle equivalent of IDS/ER would
be
> > streams replication, not Oracle standard replication. And the last time
I
> > checked Standard Edition didn't include Streams Replication.
>
> But there is a lot more to Oracle EE than just Steams. My question was
> ... 'did anyone do an actual feature comparison to see which was the
> most appropriate?'. I see little that would convince me IDS is not a
> closer match to Oracle's Standard Edition.
>
> Does anyone have a feature-by-feature comparison that would indicate
> otherwise?

If Oracle EE could 1) run on more than 4 CPUs, 2) included DataGuard (IDS HDR), 3) included Streams Replication (IDS ER), ... - then it would be fair to say that IDS should be compared to Oracle EE.

> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 16:13:40 CST

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