Re: a comparison of different databases

John Gose wrote:
> We only looked at Oracle and Informix. Oracle was four times as
> expensive off the shelf. Ran slower on our benchmarks (notice that this
> is our benchmarks, not someone else's). Required more hardware to run.
> Had higher administrative costs for personnel. Had administrative tools
> out of the stone age. Oracle brought in 3rd party tools for us to work
> with because they were not able to provide what we needed.
> etc, etc, etc...

I won't question the benchmarks, but something I have noticed in my experience with both Oracle and Informix is this: the system selected as the "winner" in benchmarks and ease-of-use is almost always the system that the evaluators are experienced and/or comfortable with.

My $0.02. Received on Sat Jul 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST