Re: Experience of Informix -> Oracle conversions

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:43:19 +0100, "Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote:

>One of our clients, uncertain of the Informix product set future in the
>light of its sale to IBM, has asked us to evaluate the costs and benefits of
>migrating to another dmbs.
>
>Because of the applications they run, the only viable candidates are DB2and
>Oracle.
>
>Does anyone have any experience of an Informix -> Oracle conversion? And
>the pitfalls. For example, I've looked at the Oracle Migration Workbench;
>it seems to me that, because of the ASCII nature of the conversion, this
>would be of value only for small databases.
>
>If you do have such experience or knowledge, and would be interested in
>spending some time helping me, could you email me privately.

I haven't done I to O, but I once did an O to I migration in less time than it took to sort out the pain of upgrading from O7.3 to O8... :-> Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 16:45:45 CEST