Who is the competition?

At a recent Infobahn in London there were numerous references to the main competition for IDS being Oracle. In fact so much attention was spent on this that I began thinking we were backed in the days of the billboard wars on 101. I would like to see a proper survey done of all of the current Informix user base as to who they consider to be the most likely database server they would move to. Maybe then we can get a good picture of the real situation. regards Malcolm

<mweallans@panacea.co.uk> wrote in message news:1117209558.065406.202840@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > At a recent Infobahn in London there were numerous references to the > main competition for IDS being Oracle. In fact so much attention was > spent on this that I began thinking we were backed in the days of the > billboard wars on 101. > > I would like to see a proper survey done of all of the current Informix > user base as to who they consider to be the most likely database server > they would move to. Maybe then we can get a good picture of the real > situation. Each of the first two speakers, both of whom mentioned Oracle as "the competition", were US-based. Perhaps Oracle is the main competition in the United States. Certainly the first guy in particular seemed surprised when we all told him that in our experience the users are haemorrhaging to SQL Server, not Oracle ...