Re: a comparison of different databases

David Williams wrote:
>
> Phil Edwards wrote:
 

> >Technically Oracle is ahead of the field. What you need to consider is
> >whether this means a more stable product or simply one with lots of
> >additional features.
 

> What makes you say Oracle is ahead of the field??

Short answer: er, pass. As an AS/400-oriented journalist I couldn't possibly start listing the positive features of an RDBMS that's not available on the platform... backtrack, backtrack...

Slightly longer answer: in my previous job I conducted an evaluation of Oracle against Sybase, Informix and Ingres (not DB2); Oracle came out way ahead. Also (for the DB2 crowd), there was a discussion about Oracle vs DB2/400 on the AS/400 newsgroup recently. The consensus seemed to be "OK so Oracle's ahead, _but_..." (you don't need all those features/it's not as stable).

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