Re: Request: Opinion about databases

At 02:56 PM 5/16/96 +0300, Eliezer Ramm wrote: >There is a raging war in the office where I work. We are trying to So, no change there! :) >decide on a database platform and no one can agree on which one to >choose. The database people want Informix. The (non-technical) upper >management wants an NT-based soulution. The people from Oracle >advertised that our company already uses their product. It's my job to >be the buffer between the two parties. HELP!! Please send me your I counted three parties... :) But stuff Oracle: I wouldn't believe an Oracle advert if it said that they were selling Oracle! :) Informix has an NT-based version of OnLine very near to release. It's called Workgroup Server. >feedback. Tell me about your good experiances and bad ones. Do we really >have to spend $50,000 for a database ? You get what you pay for. >We are: An Internet (Web) publishing company, hosting various government >offices and corporations. Look at Illustra, the new database company Informix bought out. They have a web datablade to make your life a *lot* easier. It should be integrated into the mainstream server in time for your deployment. >Our goals for the database are: To offer various information services >for our different customers. Some have existing, static dtabases on >different machines. Others have dynamic data that they (or we) should >update regularly. All easy enough... >The equipment we have is: A Sparc 20 server running Solaris, and a mixed >network of PC's running Windows `95 and Sun SParcStations running >Solaris. We could purchase a NT system if needed Informix products run *very* well on Sun. But you could (ugh) move to NT. Personally, I feel that the database sun shines out of Informix's behind! :) I reckon Informix/Illustra is _the_ database for the Internet. I've never found anything I couldn't handle using the stuff, in any environment. Check out the Illustra technology concepts at http://www.illustra.com. HTH. Hasta la vista! -- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za