Re: Informix beats Oracle

Posted in 2007

DA Morgan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:45:56 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Data Cruncher wrote: > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:4687C1C0.2070707@sbcglobal.net... >> Andrew Ford wrote: >>> comp.databases.oracle.server has experienced a similar decline of 50% >>> when comparing 2001 to 2007 YTD. >>> >> The math is actually 43%. And in the meantime the forums on OTN have >> quadrupled. asktom has also exploded. Are there similar IBM sponsored >> sites for Informix ? > > iiug membership has doubled since 2001. A meaningless metric. If you are a stockholder or employee of IBM or Oracle the only thing that matters is net profits. If you are a developer, DBA, architect, sysadmin, or project manager the only thing that matters is can you pay your mortgage and put your kids through college. Everything else is marketing hyperbole or religious fervor. A category in which, alas, you seem to wallow. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)