Oracale Database System
A poster asked, in the Informix newsgroup, whether Oracle has a good reputation and would suit a claims-processing application. No real technical evaluation emerged: replies were mostly partisan or joking (a link to a DB2 Magazine article, claims that Informix is superior, and a counter-argument citing dice.com job counts as evidence of Informix's decline). The final useful advice was simply to ask in a comp.databases.oracle.* group instead. No resolution or substantive product comparison is recorded.
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Hello, Could you please give me some information about Oracale Database Systems reputation. Would you think that it would be a good system to use for processing claims?
If you mean Oracle, there is an article that addresses this question in the latest DB2 Magazine: http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161601910#litel Beatrice Smith wrote: > Hello, > Could you please give me some information about Oracale Database Systems > reputation. Would you think that it would be a good system to use for > processing claims? > >
Hi Maybe you like to say Oracle. Informix is a much better database. For everithing including processing claims :-) S'rgio > Hello, > Could you please give me some information about Oracale Database Systems > reputation. Would you think that it would be a good system to use for > processing claims? > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >
"Beatrice Smith" <beds1@telpage.net> wrote in message news:1218h4a87dvcvb0@corp.supernews.com... > Hello, > Could you please give me some information about Oracale Database Systems > reputation. Would you think that it would be a good system to use for > processing claims? Hello Beatrice. Oracle is not very good, is vastly inferior to Informix, needs many, many more administrators just to keep its creaking frame airbone, is hugley expensive, is sold by charlatans, and lacks DB2's unique attribute of a single code base for all operating systems. There. I donlt think you'll hear much argument against these facts.
sergio@moredata.pt wrote: > Hi > > Maybe you like to say Oracle. > Informix is a much better database. For everithing including processing > claims :-) > > S'rgio And with any luck at all there will be a job, in 5 years, for those who hang on until the bitter end. From www.dice.com on 3/12/2006 COBOL 1,289 jobs Informix 392 jobs PICK 201 jobs FOX 121 jobs Informix is indeed an excellent product. That won't be enough to save it from IBM's benign neglect. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
DA Morgan wrote: > sergio@moredata.pt wrote: >> Hi >> >> Maybe you like to say Oracle. >> Informix is a much better database. For everithing including processing >> claims :-) >> >> S'rgio > > And with any luck at all there will be a job, in 5 years, for those who > hang on until the bitter end. > > From www.dice.com on 3/12/2006 > COBOL 1,289 jobs > Informix 392 jobs > PICK 201 jobs > FOX 121 jobs > > Informix is indeed an excellent product. That won't be enough to save it > from IBM's benign neglect. I'd be willing to bet that of those "Informix" jobs very few were actually Informix specific, most likely requiring skills in other technologies or disciplines. Most were probably looking to migrate away from Informix too, since there is hardly ever any traffic about new Informix customers. You hear about maybe one new Informix customer a year, but not much else.
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:55:43 -0500, "Beatrice Smith" <beds1@telpage.net> wrote: >Hello, >Could you please give me some information about Oracale Database Systems >reputation. Would you think that it would be a good system to use for >processing claims? > Assuming you mean "Oracle", you might be better off posting to comp.databases.oracle.server or some other newsgroup in the comp.databases.oracle.* domain. There you would get an Oracle-based answer; in case you hadn't noticed, this newsgroup deals mainly with the Informix RDBMS and its tools. Unless you were trolling for Daniel Morgan or Mark Townsend, who are Oracle-based and hang out here when it suits them . . . . JWC