Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

In article <5n4n2a$ge0@agate.berkeley.edu>, pbrown@triplerock.CS.Berkeley.EDU writes: > > Now, *you* may choose not to call this multi-threading. I'm not sure why you've gotten emotional about this whole thing but regardless of that, my point is (and has been) that multi-threading in the context that Informix (and Sybase to some extent) use it is *not* multi-threading. > You may choose to speak swahili. No one is going to stop you, but > no one will understand you either. I can't recall where I started using this tone with you. Don't see why you have to use it with me. > Second, the engineers who implement DBMSs are not fools > or ingrates. Never said they were... not sure why you are attempting to put words in my mouth. > They work in incredibly competitive circumstances. They > live and die by the micro-seconds. I beg to differ on that point... they know the RDBMS but they typically don't know the vendor's hardware boxes as well. > If they thought they could get one iota more performance by using > the OSs facilities, they would. Not true. What happens is that "they" work under enormous pressure to get the latest product out the door because of The Beast or whatever else is out there and don't fully exploit the O/S. > They are certainly not perfect, and their opinions differ on many > things, but not on this point. I just got off the phone with one of the folks that does RDBS porting and what they had to say certainly doesn't jive with what you are saying. I find it hard to believe that you speak for the *entire* community. -- Pablo Sanchez | wk: 415.933.3812| pg: 800.930.5635 -or- pablo_p@pager.sgi.com --------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------- pablo@sgi.com ... when mailing me, place "not spam" in the Subject