Re: Oracle/Sybase/Informix/MS-SQL Server

Posted in 1996

Joe Lumbley — Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:09:38 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Billy Wheeler (billy@west.co.za) wrote: : On 27 Dec 96 at 15:14, Scott P. Smith wrote: : > I know I'm asking for it, but here it goes: Saying things like "NT : > Sucks." really doesn't say anything. NT and UNIX both have there : > place. NT is great for small to midsized LANs were all the clients : > are Windows/Win95. I know this from first hand experience. If you I am probably the biggest UNIX bigot around, but I've been very pleasantly surprised by Informix 7.XX on NT. I have AIX, HP-UX, UnixWare, Stratus, and god-knows-what-else systems available, and my NT Informix servers are among the fastest and most reliable of the bunch. Don't trash it until you live with it for a while. Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------