Re: Market Share

In article <4aqbql$428@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: >Would you put Online and SE in the same catagory? Are they the same caliber. Online has some more features, true, but your average company can live a full and happy life without them. >SE is basically a cheap, small database with NO >Transaction Logging >Row-level Locking On these two points you're wrong, and wrt to the following features I just wonder how important they are to most organisations. I humbly suggest that a lot of businesses couldn't give a flying about them - much of it is only applicable to LARGE organisations, or important for database vendor buzzword check-lists. >Multithreaded Server >Parallel Anything >BLOB Support >Database Mirroring >Distributed Features >24x7 Support >Replication >OLAP >Special Datatypes PS: What, precisely, are these: >Advanced Indexing >VLDB Features >Thomas Kyte >tkyte@us.oracle.com >Oracle Government Wow! Is "Oracle Government" the first step towards world domination? Regards, Kerry S (who doesn't consider Informix "God's Gift to Anything", just wants to straighten some facts and maybe put Database functionality into perspective) ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.4 Oct 95 Quanta Systems, Auckland | kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/informix.[faq|apx] New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | mathcs.emory.edu:/pub/informix/faq/ " " Home: +64 9 279-3571 | http://www.garpac.com/informix.html