Re: Oracle vs. Informix

In article <4b1ig8$2qk@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> chuckm@informix.com (Chuck Miller) writes: >short-sighted. Of course, if you want to do that, judge Oracle by >Larry Ellison's actions and his endorsement of their misleading marketing >campaigns. > > > Chuck Miller //////////////// > Senior Systems Engineer ////////// // > Informix Software Inc. ////// / /// > 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 750 ///// // //// > Atlanta, GA 30328 //// // ///// > /// // ////// > Phone 404-395-2300 // // /////// > Fax 404-395-2343 / /////////// > E-mail chuckm@informix.com //////////////// > > > >} I was turned off by the fact that persons involved in >} diseminating pre-sales information was rather rude and "bitchy." >} One of them rudely told me that it is complex software and I needed >} to know how to program? I suppose all those years of VAX/VMS macro >} assemler programming and tackling the "Orange Wall" of Vax manuals >} is not considered programming. :-) I hate dealing with classless Attributions are screwed; Sun'd newsreader strikes again! Not wishing to imply anything about the person who posted the above re programming, but... I have recently had the experience of dealing with 2 quite good programmers, neither of whom had ever worked on relational databases, only single user 3GL code. Getting through to them that actions their programming had could potentially affect dozens of other users via record locking and/or IO performance was a real challenge. I never did get across to one that locking every record you may wish to use was not a good idea. He fortunately has moved on. Point is, programming skills per se in one area of this discipline doesn't necessarily imply that you know all you need to know in another. As I said, this is a general point, not aimed at the author of the excerpt. Too close to Christmas for flamewars with anyone except Oracle. Peter Wiley PS: I have used PL/SQL. That's why I use Informix 4GL. As for SE being small and cheap, perhaps if you consider 2Gb databases small. (Yes, I know that around here that is small). OTOH, they run unattended for months to years at a time, are easy to install and configure and are generally a developer's joy. AND cheaper than Oracle. PPS: Where is Oracle's p-code debugger? Where is Oracle's debugger? Last I looked (some time ago, I admit) I was told I had to use ESQL/C and a C debugger if I needed this. It was an Oracle rep that told me.