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Web Site ideal system: Oracle vs. Illustra and Sun vs. Silicon Graphics

From: Aaron D. Gross <aaron.g_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1996/03/29
Message-ID: <4jhoeh$m3u_at_dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 






My company is entertaining proposals from two vendors 
for a web site solution.



One vendor is pushing Oracle 7.3 Universal Server,
Designer 2000 on a Sun Sparc 50 platform.



The other vendor is pushing Informix/Illustra and
WebFORCE on a SGI server.



Until today, I hadn't heard of Designer 2000.  
WebFORCE, on the other hand, appears to have 
an excellent reputation.  Another consideration
is that, as a company, the enterprise is moving
toward Oracle.  Yet, since the web server will
not be connected to our production systems, it
will probably be just taking nightly batch imports
generated by SQL, anyway, so the actual database
is less of an issue... or is it?



I have to admit my bias is a bit more toward Informix,
as I have experience being burned by Oracle's juggernaut
sales staff.  But I want to keep an open mind.



Any feedback by email would be most appreciated.
Some major decisions are being made Monday morning
and there isn't much time left.
Received on Fri Mar 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CET












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