Re: Informix vs. Oracle

kwcaps@aol.com (KW CAPS) wrote: :What are the chances of gettin a one sheet on the Pros/Cons of :informix/Oracle as it pertains to cost, market share, performance, ease of :programming, ease of use, development tools, operating systems(either SCO :Unix or Windows NT), and any other juicy stuff to show apples to apples :comparison? :Please reply to KWCAPS@aol.com. :Thank you in advance for any help You need to check out the Informix Universal Server to see where the real difference is these days in relational databases. It's a totaly different animal than the combination of producst Oracle call Universal Server. Something that shows some of the differences are highligted by the following comments when the Java Beans spesifications where released by Sun Soft: "Oracle is standardizing on cross-platform, open standards and support for Java throughout Oracle's Network Computing Architecture (NCA) and tools. JavaBeans represents an important component standard that promises portability. Oracle intends to support JavaBeans compatibility within Oracle tools," said Joseph Duncan, senior vice president, Object, Internet, and Groupware Tools at Oracle Corporation. "Informix is making JavaBeans a fundamental part of its Java support strategy, and more broadly its type extensibility model. JavaBeans will become part of the system schema of Informix Universal Server databases, and may be used to develop not only applications and applets that make use of Informix DataBlade objects, but server functions and access methods as well. Our Datablade Developer Kit will be extended so that creating JavaBeans for novel datatypes is as simple as creating the Informix Universal Server type itself," said Chris Horak, product marketing manager for Informix. Informix will also make available support for Java in their tools, but they are also able to integrate it inside the database engine itself. That realy makes for some exciting oportunities that it's likely will take quite some time for others to duplicate. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company