Re: An Oracle question
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Nikita wrote: > Informix vs. Oracle in Northern CA and you tell me who has the market share > :-)). (uh, 1,500 jobs for Informix, 13,000 for Oracle). .. No problem there: that is about the ratio or Oracle DBAs needed for one Informix DBA. :-O > Does that mean it > will always be that way? Maybe DB2 will make a comeback, so whose to say. > Honestly tho, I can't say I know Informix well enough to make a judgement, > so I'll lay off on that one until I know better. > I don't understand why people think that Informix is "going away." Their sales were better than ever the last 2 quarters and they have a good market share. Okay, they obviously are way behind O.R.A.C.L.E., but they continue to grow. I believe that the "i.Economy" strategy is good and is in line with today's trends. And Informix's positioning is that the new economy has LOTS of new opportunity, so that levels the playing field. We shall see if it works out that way, but for now, I'm not sweating it. - Ron F. ----- Ron Flannery rflanner@informixhandbook.com > mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: > > > In article <390E17D3.2882A065@yahoo.com>, > > Nikita <Nikita@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Ability???? > > > hahahahahahahah....that's funny too! > > > Get real baby. > > > If Oracle were purely hype, they would have been dead a long time ago, > > just > > > like Infomix. > > > > > > > A large portion of Oracle's market share comes from government > > contracts. Are you trying to say that the government knows anything at > > all about ability? My God, they spend $600 on a hammer! > > > > Why don't you start posting to a newsgroup that cares to listen to your > > blather. > > > > > Jeremy Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > Nikita <Nikita@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > >Now why in the world would anyone want to do that? > > > > >You guys a little nervous that Oracle is eating you alive, and > > Informix is > > > > >basically in the toilet? > > > > >Give me a break, migrate to Informix....NOT! > > > > > > > > You know, some of us are glad that our the tools we use in our job > > were > > > > chosen more out of ability than hype. > > > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > -- > > > > jfn@enteract.com > > > > Four > > > > Lines > > > > Suffice. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > # unrm / > > ksh: unrm: not found > > # man cpio > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy. >
.. No problem there: that is about the ratio or Oracle DBAs needed for one Informix DBA. :-O And I totally disagree with you here...it's the ratio of Companies running Oracle vs. Informix. Maybe Informix is gaining back market share (luckily for all those investors that sued the company so they can get their money back), because like you said, there's room for everyone, and Oracle doesn't particularly cater to smaller companies. We are running several terabyte sized Oracle Databases on Sun E10K's and there are two of us..... Another company I was with running SQL Server on NT -- small MB databases and there were five of us -- "Ron M. Flannery" wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2000, Nikita wrote: > > > Informix vs. Oracle in Northern CA and you tell me who has the market share > > :-)). (uh, 1,500 jobs for Informix, 13,000 for Oracle). > > A > > > > Does that mean it > > will always be that way? Maybe DB2 will make a comeback, so whose to say. > > Honestly tho, I can't say I know Informix well enough to make a judgement, > > so I'll lay off on that one until I know better. > > > > I don't understand why people think that Informix is "going away." Their > sales were better than ever the last 2 quarters and they have a good > market share. Okay, they obviously are way behind O.R.A.C.L.E., but they > continue to grow. I believe that the "i.Economy" strategy is good and is > in line with today's trends. And Informix's positioning is that the new > economy has LOTS of new opportunity, so that levels the playing > field. We shall see if it works out that way, but for now, I'm not > sweating it. > > - Ron F. > > ----- > Ron Flannery > rflanner@informixhandbook.com > > > > mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: > > > > > In article <390E17D3.2882A065@yahoo.com>, > > > Nikita <Nikita@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Ability???? > > > > hahahahahahahah....that's funny too! > > > > Get real baby. > > > > If Oracle were purely hype, they would have been dead a long time ago, > > > just > > > > like Infomix. > > > > > > > > > > A large portion of Oracle's market share comes from government > > > contracts. Are you trying to say that the government knows anything at > > > all about ability? My God, they spend $600 on a hammer! > > > > > > Why don't you start posting to a newsgroup that cares to listen to your > > > blather. > > > > > > > Jeremy Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > > > Nikita <Nikita@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > >Now why in the world would anyone want to do that? > > > > > >You guys a little nervous that Oracle is eating you alive, and > > > Informix is > > > > > >basically in the toilet? > > > > > >Give me a break, migrate to Informix....NOT! > > > > > > > > > > You know, some of us are glad that our the tools we use in our job > > > were > > > > > chosen more out of ability than hype. > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > -- > > > > > jfn@enteract.com > > > > > Four > > > > > Lines > > > > > Suffice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > # unrm / > > > ksh: unrm: not found > > > # man cpio > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > > Before you buy. > >
Rock on! Thats the kind of recommendation NO vendor can dispute. Ever though of spreading the good news to comp.databases.oracle.server ? Over there we know we are the best but it doesn't hurt getting reminded about it from time to time. DNP ====================================================================== > > We are running several terabyte sized Oracle Databases on Sun E10K's and there are > two of us..... > > Another company I was with running SQL Server on NT -- small MB databases and > there were five of us -- >