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Re: informix market share

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:31:53 -0800
Message-ID: <1133130704.73968@yasure>


Madison Pruet wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1133128547.820245_at_yasure...
>

>>Madison Pruet wrote:
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>>>"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
>>>news:1133072683.547964_at_yasure...
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>>>>xiaoxin wrote:
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>>>>>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?
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>>>Not really.  IDS has both HDR and Enterprise Replication as a base part

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> of
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>>>the product.  Last time I checked, the Oracle equivalent of IDS/ER would

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>>>streams replication, not Oracle standard replication.  And the last time

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>>>checked Standard Edition didn't include Streams Replication.
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>>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.
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>>Does anyone have a feature-by-feature comparison that would indicate
>>otherwise?

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> 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.
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>>-- 
>>Daniel A. Morgan
>>http://www.psoug.org
>>damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>>(replace x with u to respond)

I think you meant SE. EE runs on an unlimited number of processors and includes Streams and DataGuard.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sun Nov 27 2005 - 16:31:53 CST

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