Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

Keith Willis wrote:

> Quoting from "computing" magazine in the UK:
>

Ahh, you're on the wrong side of the pond ... ;-)

> Sounds like they are up the proverbial creek...
>

Not!
You have to understand that there is about 1 billion USD in seed capital from angels available to hi-tech start ups.

Unlike Sybase, Informix does have some leading/bleeding edge technologies. (The buyout of Illustra, which helped cause that loss for the earlier periods) This technology is not in question. Its the delivery and support of the technology is.
These problems are easier to fix than technical ones.

BTW, the whole page locks vs row level locking is really a moot point. Locking granularity is important when building applications. The better the granularity,
the less likelyhood of problems. (deadlocks and such.) However, decreased granularity has its costs hence it is not the default method of locking.

But to defend Sybase by saying that row level locking isn't important, is pretty damn silly. Admit it and move on. Look, I had a freind who worked for Informix, then went to Sybase. He had no problems admitting that there were some features that Informix had which Sybase didn't, so why can't you?

-Mike Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CET