Re: Informix to Oracle Migration

Serge Rielau wrote: > Obnoxio The Chav wrote: > >> DA Morgan said: >> >>> Girish wrote: >>> >>> >>>> We have an application written in Informix 4gl and Esql/C which >>>> communicates with Informix database. >>>> >>>> We are doing an exercise of migrating this application from Informix >>>> to Oracle database. For compiling this, right now Hydra compiler is >>>> used which is a third party tool from QueriX. We are facing some >>>> issues with this tool because of license restrictions. >>>> >>>> If anybody has any info about any other such tool which can compile >>>> Informix4gl code communicating with Oracle database, please reply to >>>> my ID. >>> >>> >>> I would strongly urge you to not do that which you are contemplating. >>> The underlying concepts and architecture of Oracle are substantially >>> different from those in Oracle and likely you will be lucky if it is >>> just unscalable and performs poorly. To work in an environment with >>> multiversion read consistency where reads don't block writes and writes >>> don't block reads means recoding. >> >> >> >> I agree with the heffalump, but it seems to me that Oracle's official >> response would be "chuck more tin at it..." >> > In other words: Congratulations you are locked in. Help increase > Oracle's GPM with your support contract :-) > > Cheers > Serge Interesting job of snipping ... I never wrote what appears to be attributed to me. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)