Re: NASA/Need Opinions On Informix

rich@convergent.com writes: > >barrydm@dryden.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mark Barry) writes: > >>We are going to be transferring some telecommunications data base software >[text deleted} >>..., can anyone express opinions and/or experiences with Informix? > ...<text deleted>... >Personally, I use a mix for my projects which I manage. If you need to >go the transaction processing route, you can implement the /T standard >which both Oracle and I believe Sybase now support. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Huh? I believe you are referring to the X/Open XA Specification which was adopted in December, 1991 as a Common Application Environment (CAE) Specification by X/Open. This specification defines the interface between a Transaction Manager and a Resource Manager (like a database) in the X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing environment. I believe that Informix, Oracle, and Sybase have announced support of this standard. Thus, they will work with any Transaction Manager product which also complies to this standard. TOP END, the transaction monitor product from AT&T/NCR, complies to this standard. (BTW, when I say "standard" I am referring to the official version supported/adopted by X/Open, not the April 1990 Preliminary DRAFT version that _some_ TP monitor products tend to call the "standard". ;-) Much was changed between April 1990 and December 1991.) If you want more information or have technical questions, please send them to top.end@sandiegoca.ncr.com or to me. -Ray ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray Nieto | Open Systems Development | NCR's TOP END... NCR Corporation, E & M - San Diego | OPEN is our middle name. ray.nieto@sandiegoca.ncr.com | ----------------------...these are MY opinions, not NCR's...or AT&T's....------