RE: Informix vs. Oracle

Wow, this has been a long and sensitive thread. Just when we are planning to convert our IDS 7.31 UC2 (AIX 4.3.2) installation to Oracle8i. Not very encouraging, is it? Uday -----Original Message----- From: Mark Townsend [mailto:mtownsen@us.oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 6:36 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Informix vs. Oracle This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B47C3D94A0D60A7B1FDC8217 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just to keep the debate informed ... > The Oracle results do not show the result of scaling up > the dataset size or the number of users, these are always selected to > avoid showing the severe performance drop off, certainly compared to > Informix, of increasing database size and increasing numbers of users. http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-result1.idc?id=98101303 http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-result1.idc?id=98121801 > Ever notice that they do not test on a Sun E650 with 24 CPUS or an E10000 > with 32 CPUs? That is because Oracle does not take good advantage of all > those resources! http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-result1.idc?id=99032301 > Keith, if you really want to see which server is better bring both > companies in to prove themselves. Absolutely -- Regards, Mark Townsend --------------B47C3D94A0D60A7B1FDC8217 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mtownsen.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mark Townsend Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mtownsen.vcf" begin:vcard n:Townsend;Mark tel;fax:(650) 506 7222 tel;home:(650) 558 1379 tel;work:(650) 633 5764 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.oracle.com org:Oracle Corporation;Server Division version:2.1 email;internet:mtownsen@us.oracle.com title:Senior Product Manager adr;quoted-printable:;;4op626=0D=0A400 Oracle Parkway;Redwood City;CA;94065;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mark Townsend end:vcard --------------B47C3D94A0D60A7B1FDC8217--