Re: NASA/Need Opinions On Informix

barrydm@dryden.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mark Barry) writes: >We are going to be transferring some telecommunications data base software [text deleted} >..., can anyone express opinions and/or experiences with Informix? I have had some experience with both Oracle and Informix. My personal preference is Informix. Conversion from other databases can be relatively straightforward as long as you can define your field seperators coming across. The administrative overhead with Oracle can be an absolute nightmare epecially if you find you need to change your structure down the road. If anything gets out of sync, your're dead. Informix is not only simple to set up, it easy to re-arrange. There are all kinds of options for what you are trying to accomplish. You can get fairly sophisticated with the ISQL-PERFORM screens, you can tweak any of the routines with ESQL-C, or you can go the 4GL route. Personally, I use a mix for my projects which I manage. If you need to go the transaction processing route, you can implement the /T standard which both Oracle and I believe Sybase now support. If you want more specific information, contact me directly at "rich@convergent.com" . As always, my opinions are my own - not necessarily those of the company I work for.