Re: Informix 10 vs Oracle 10g

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 07:53:12 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote: >M Segel wrote: > >>>Not kidding. The reason for looking at the OLTP marketplace, take a >>>look at my list above, is that they are spinning the fact that they >>>have no chance in the apps market: They are ceding it. >>> >> >> Dude! >> >> What drugs are you currently taking? I mean are you stealing your kid's >> Ritilin ?sp?, crushing and then snorting it? >> >> There's two different philosophies at work. >> Leisure suit Larry has always taken on the application market. They compete >> with their partners. And do so openly. > >Correct ... and no doubt will continue to do so. But if the marketsize >is too small they are not going to invest money in it. I will be very >surprised if there are Informix or Sybase versions of most commercial >apps (SAP, PeopleSoft, eBusiness Suite, JD Edwared, Siebel) in 10 years. How many of the afore-mentioned packages have been bought by Oracle? One could say that at least two of the packages themselves may not exist in 10 years -- PeopleSoft and JD Edwards . . . . JWC