Re: Informix beats Oracle

Posted in 2007

Mark Townsend — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:01:21 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Andrew Ford wrote: > comp.databases.oracle.server has experienced a similar decline of 50% when > comparing 2001 to 2007 YTD. > The math is actually 43%. And in the meantime the forums on OTN have quadrupled. asktom has also exploded. Are there similar IBM sponsored sites for Informix ?

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Serge Rielau — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:48:02 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Mark Townsend wrote: > Andrew Ford wrote: >> comp.databases.oracle.server has experienced a similar decline of 50% >> when comparing 2001 to 2007 YTD. > The math is actually 43%. And in the meantime the forums on OTN have > quadrupled. asktom has also exploded. Are there similar IBM sponsored > sites for Informix ? Let's look at spread. Google lists 88 recent authors for Oracle, 80 for Informix, (104 for DB2 ;-). I think that implies that there are some really active posters who have either a lot of questions or a lot of answers on Oracle. A look at the all times high list yields potential insights... Anyway right on time this link was posted yesterday on slashdot: http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume8/Welser/ Would be funs to let that software loose on the three newsgroups... For once I agree with Daniel. These particular statistics are rather meaningless. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab