RE: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company: IThought Informix was Dead?
"pretty good"..... ????..... keep us posted.... you will find it's far better than pretty good. Far from dead and still the best. I'm sure you will get a lot of more solid comments on your post. Informix is the database like the energizer bunny..... it keeps running and running.... the new release coming out is called Cheetah. The last time I upgraded my informix engine was the fall of 2004. No doubt you are used to Oracle alerts on security patches and such.... well, relax....informix is more stable. We don't get these oracle type of patch alerts and product churn announcements ..... with informix the churn rate is lower...much lower...you won't be busy upgrading informix engines in order to stay ahead of the "desupport" cycle. Many informix features were incorporated into DB2. Not so much coming from DB2 into informix. Form your own opinion on what that means regarding which product is better. Welcome to Informix. Norma Jean Sebastian ERP Support Administration GIS- Enterprise Technical Services -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of cfoughty@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 5:58 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company: IThought Informix was Dead? So I've been doing Oracle for almost 20 years now and I've been assigned to learn Informix IDS so I can become a backup Informix DBA. I thought when IBM acquired Informix they would kill it and move everybody to UDB (DB2 for non-mainframe). So what is happenning to the future of Informix? BTW, it seems like a pretty good database. Kinda of a cross between Sybase and Oracle. Help me understand. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================