RE: informix market share

> -----Original Message----- > From: RollForward Wizard [mailto:rollforward@rollforward.com] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:03 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: informix market share > > caver wrote: > > I would agree with Xiaoxin. We just found out with our renewal that > > IBM is much more expensive than Oracle. > > We love Informix and had never even considered switching from Informix > > to any other db until we got our renewal quote. > > Since the "best and final" quote from IBM is still four to five times > > what Oracle is quoting, we will soon be implementing > > a head to head comparison between Oracle and Informix. > > > > When the cost of Oracle is 150K versus 750K for Informix IDS the > > comparison is just a formality. Everything being equal, Informix shouldn't cost five times more than an equivalent Oracle set up. Maybe before you do anything else, you should see about how your Informix license is set up and possibly restructuring it. For example, we rebuilt our licenses and reduced our annual support cost by more than 75%. Admittedly, there were some transition costs, but the savings paid for it. --EEM > > > > The difference for us is towfold: > > 1) We require relatively simple replication. For Informix, any E.R. > > replication > > requires IDS, but Oracle allows simple bi-direction table subsets in > > the Oracle > > equivalent of Informix Workgroup. > > > > 2) We reworked our front end app using VB with ODBC. In the old > > application we took one access hit per > > named user, now one user accounts for four or five server connections > > due to multiple background > > db access (I don't know if it is a VB or a ODBC thing). > > > > -Oracle only charges a premium price for full database sync in what > > they call multi-master replication. > > > > -Oracle has either a per processor charge or a named user charge where > > one named user equals one > > database access even in VB/ODBC. > > > > They also have built in web development tools that seem (from the > > Oracle sales guy) to take the place of > > some Informix development tools. I have doubs about this though. > > > > So most likely we will be heading down the Oracle highway (reluctantly) > > due to the lower cost. > > > > You should check out DB2 features first before going to Oracle, and > especially > DB2 HADR, a chimpanzee can set it up it's so simple. > > Plus you get all the same basic functionality of IDS in DB2, just a little > rearranging of terminology, etc. DB2 will most like be more to your > liking > as it is more-like-Informix than Oracle, but hey, if you really want > Oracle, > go for it. sending to informix-list