Re: Informix to Oracle Migration

Serge Rielau said: > 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 :-) It is just me hearing that whoosh? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco Travel broadens a person. You look as if you have been all over the world. I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/Obnoxio/thinkIfoundtheproblem.jpg sending to informix-list