Re: a comparison of different databases

From: Mark D Stock <marks_at_west.co.za>
Date: 1996/07/07
Message-ID: <31E0735A.6C60_at_west.co.za>#1/1


Adel Al-Shaikh wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> When It comes to problems ask MS Access users, the Access community has
> the largest number of problems to solve, and by studying there
> behaviour, you can be sure that more traffic dose not mean more problems
> to solve, because Access users have learned to be quite and inactive,
> ALL BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS!!!!!
>
> Well, the serious part is that in my company, We have done a thourogh
> comparison betwwen Oracle, MS Sql Server, and Informix. Informix is old
> bulky technology, MS Sql Server is a joke, Oracle is the way for serious
> developers database solutions (Full Stop)

'old bulky technology'?? Which version did you evaluate... version 4.00? The Online engine has just been written from scratch, using all the latest multi-threaded technology. Take a look at version 7.20, then tell us Oracle is still the way to go!

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Mark.

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Received on Sun Jul 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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