RE: This one made my day.

But now do the math... $50K will buy you a month of consulting to tune the engine and app. That same 50K will buy you more and faster kit to run the app as is. Where do you think the client will spend the money? If you ask the question ... can the app run on Oracle, the answer is yes. Asking the question of "will it run faster on Informix? " is a moot point. Just buy more hardware. Unfortunately that's the issue you face. Those who are making the decision will choose a product because it is ranked #1 and thus not a risky decision. If it doesn't run fast enough, toss enough hardware until it does. This is why you can't market to the masses and expect a decent ROI. Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:58:18 -0500 From: art.kagel@gmail.com To: informix-list@iiug.org; ids@iiug.org Subject: This one made my day. Just one more anecdote to share around. A major, nameless, Informix site with over 50 servers online, who was talked into converting all of their servers into Oracle in the past year, is having major performance problems with several of the handful of already ported applications and their databases. One such application, still in conformance and performance testing before moving to production, is reported to be three to four times faster running under Informix 7.31 than under Oracle 11! Imagine if they had taken advice given them 4+ years ago and upgraded to IDS 9.40 and kept up through IDS 11.50 which cumulatively would have given them an additional 20-35% performance improvement over 7.31 (I think that works out to another 100% additional performance over Oracle)! Now, I do not doubt that the Oracle instances could use some tuning, the users' DBAs are not Oracle novices they have had Oracle servers online alongside IDS for over 6 years and IB there are Oracle consultants onsite helping with porting and configuration, but I for one don't think anyone will be able to coax 300% additional throughput out of those servers. -- Art S. Kagel Oninit (www.oninit.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Oninit, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly or implicitly. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_112008