Re: Informix/Oracle and Baan

Thread repeated below. There is little to choose between them as transaction processing engines for a reasonable volume of transactions. Both will throw benchmarks at you showing they are faster than the other. To resolve this, go and see installations of your sort of size, running the version of Baan you want to get on the sort of hardware you have or will acquire. Don't get too hung up, just so long as the order of magnitude is about right... The likelihood is that you will actually decide on the basis of much softer issues than this. Issues like: o Do you already have Oracle skills, but no Informix skills? o Which company will give you the best support in your territory o Is Baan going to keep up a stream of Oracle releases as dilligently as a stream of Informix releases o does your Chief Finance Officer believe Informix' recent losses will prove temporary Because the acquisition of an ERP package (or whatever bit you're getting from Baan) is (typically) a very substantial investment, it will heavily influence the subsequent diretion of your entire IT Strategy. There you would have to think carefully. Does Oracle or Informix have the better strategy for your overall IT infrastructure? I don't want to go into detail here as I would be fantasising requirements on your behalf. I just want to highlight that you might want to look beyond Baan at the other requirements you have. (An unpopular suggestion no doubt. The art of project management is to focus on the special case and not get distracted by grand, generalised strategies.) Henk Bakker IT Analysis Group Ovum http://www.ovum.com Thread so far: > On 2 Sep 97 at 2:00, Ranki Chan wrote: > > > My company is going to buy Baan as our MIS and use Oracle or > > Informix as a database engine. I would like to get more information > > about that. Which software engine is better ? Helper ! > > Informix and Baan are making big waves together. Baan is now bundled > with Informix as its default engine. Informix has (IMO) a much better > technology than Oracle, and it was also recently re-written > (1990-odd), whereas Oracle is still cobbling and patching its old > 1970's technology. > > Also, I believe that Oracle's insistence on trying to be all things > to all men (and women! :-) will bite them on the bum one day soon. > Hint: Oracle Financials is a big competitor to Baan and SAP... :-) > > -- > Ciao, > Billy > > Nose to the ear in Johannesburg, Murder Capital of the World. > For a good time, call: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html