Re: Informix/Oracle and Baan

In article <5ugbm5$g9q@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> billy@west.co.za ("Billy Wheeler") writes: >On 2 Sep 97 at 2:00, Ranki Chan wrote: > >> My company is going to buy Baan as our MIS and use Oracle or >> Informix as a database engine. I would like to get more information >> about that. Which software engine is better ? Helper ! > >Informix and Baan are making big waves together. Baan is now bundled >with Informix as its default engine. Informix has (IMO) a much better >technology than Oracle, and it was also recently re-written >(1990-odd), whereas Oracle is still cobbling and patching its old >1970's technology. > >Also, I believe that Oracle's insistence on trying to be all things >to all men (and women! :-) will bite them on the bum one day soon. >Hint: Oracle Financials is a big competitor to Baan and SAP... :-) I haven't looked at Baan, but IMHO Oracle Financials is the product to pick over SAP. the fact that it runs on Oracle is, of course, a *major* drawback, but nevertheless, credit where it's due. It impressed me, and I went along expecting to hate it. However, their engine still is archaic. Like Progress. Worse in some ways. Hell, even Progress has an easy fast dump to ASCII program in their toolkit. Peter Wiley