Re: Informix beats Oracle

Data Cruncher wrote: > I prefer the demand/supply equation of Informix. There's a demand? Where? Not here: www.dice.com or here www.monster.com or here www.hotjobs.com -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

> Rad Mango wrote: > > Data Cruncher wrote: > >> I prefer the demand/supply equation of Informix. > > There's a demand? Where? Not here: > > www.dice.com > or here > www.monster.com > or here > www.hotjobs.com > -- > Daniel A. Morgan > University of Washington > damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) If you are going to calculate supply and demand you need 2 figures, supply and demand. You can not continue to point to the multitude of online job postings that contain the word Oracle in the description and suggest that Oracle DBAs can easily find good paying jobs to cover their mortgage without quantifying the number of Oracle DBAs competing for these jobs. If the number of Oracle jobs is 2000 but there are 8000 Oracle DBAs available to fill these positions then this is a bad thing for the Oracle professional looking for work. On the other hand, if there are 8 Informix opennings and 2 Informix DBAs available then this is a good thing for the Informix professional looking for a job switch. I make no claim that these numbers are accurate, but they do follow the 80/20 rule so they must be close. I am simply demonstrating how your references to the online job sites are meaningless until you can provide all relevant inputs to the Supply and Demand equation. Andrew IBM Informix Dynamic Server - It works all the time so I don't have to. oninit -i onstat -am onmode -lucky