Re: Progress/Ingres vrs Informix

In article <63aueq$r2s@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, "Inf. Fabian Garro" <Fgarro@gotec.com> writes >Hi David! > >I've been looking for a hands on experience advice regarding pros and cons >of Ingres or Progress compared to Informix. > Informix is one of the few database engines which is truely multi- threaded. Oracle - even the Parrallel Server option is NOT multi- threaded. Informix beats Ingres on feature, last I looked Ingress did not even have a supported ALTER TABLE statment!! Sybase comes close but is harder to admin as the admin is done via stored procedures. I find Informix has the best architecture - CPU activity,disk activity and network activity are all separated into seperate processes which can run in parallel. Also Informix has Data Repliate and networking in the BASE product, not as an addon which you have to pay more for! >Costa Rica no longer has an official Informix representative, so we are >looking for alternatives other than Oracle or SQL Server since Oracle is >just too expensive and has terrible support here and the other seem to be >just a Baby Engine compared to Informix. > -- David Williams