Re: Comparative between DB2, Informix and Oracle

Serge Rielau wrote: >> Price of migration is one of many factors. But only one and generally >> the tool chosen is an insignificant part of that cost. The biggest cost >> is is the time spent as payroll dollars. And that is hardly ever about >> the tool itself. > > Possibly for the first time ever we agree: > The cost is in the payroll dollars. Just a second ... back up ... one of us needs to change our mind. ;-) > Therefore the degree of automation is a crucial factor. > Migration is an investment with an associated risk. > Both increase with the amount of redesign and manual labour. > It needs either a big pay-off or a seriously pissed of customer to make > the investment and risk worthwhile. > > Cheers > Serge True if migration automation produced good code. But that is something I've never seen. I've seen code that compiles. I've seen code that runs. But I've never seen good, clean, efficient, secure, scalable, maintainable code. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)