Re: informix and oracle

Thomas Schumacher wrote: > Hi everybody, > our company is developing software under UNIX/C and Informix. We have experience > with several Informix-releases. Most of them are good, especially Informix-Online > 7 (Informix 4 and 5 has serious problems with Index-access, the optimizer is very > poor in this releases. Allthough we plan to migrate our application to oracle, > because of two main reasons: > 1. The future of Informix is uncertain. > 2. We don't want depend on one single DB-Company (pricing!) > 3. We look for a faster Support in case of problems. > [SNIP] This seems to keep poping up in c.d.i. Either this is a problem with the mailer, or this is a troll. Since the headers aren't from the mail list, I'd say that this is a troll since it was discussed earlier. But just incase you missed the earlier responses, The future of *any* company is uncertain. Just ask Bill Clinton. :-) (Ok, so that's the future of the American Presidency, but you get my point) The product list is sane and viable. They have money. Some companies like multiple vendors. This is good, and bad. Increased TCO, and support issues. So you have to balance that against your benifits. Faster support? Just pay the man for their top notch support option, of course, that may not always be necessary. This post is yet another attempt at FUD. and we ain't talking about Elmer! -Mikey