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

Aaron,

70% of all WEB sites that use a database use Illustra, what does that tell you?

Look at www.coldwellbanker.com and see what is posible, there is a long list of prominant companies using Illustra look at www.illustra.com for a complete list. Real life examples are better than oracle promises.

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Aaron D. Gross (aaron.g_at_ix.netcom.com) wrote:


: 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.