Re: Oracle V Informix

Posted in 2003

John Carlson — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:16:42 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:13:55 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >Dirk Moolman wrote: > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Daniel Morgan [mailto:damorgan@x.washington.edu] >> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:05 PM >> >> [snip] >> >>>Glad you put that emoticon after your comment. What we need is more >>>rationality ... less >>>emotional jingoism. Informix developers and DBAs, over the next 5-7 >>>years are basically >>>going to move in one of two directions ... Oracle or DB2. >> >> >> What - and not to Arrowhead ? ..... or whatever the new DB will be >> called ? > >I wouldn't want to be accused of provoking an unnecessary flame war, but I >don't think the DB2 code base is capable of being merged with anything >else. So Blue Arrowhead will be DB2 with a load of Informix features built >in. It won't be anything like IDS. Unless they market DB2 to the mainframe world and IDS to the Unix world. . . . yeah, I know...wishful thinking on my part......