Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) writes: >"Ian Sparkes" <sparkes@sprintmail.com> wrote: >:In can be done but why would you want to ? >: >:As a database Informix is a good product but if you are an Oracle shop >:already I can't see any reason to switch, as Informix doesn't bring any >:benefits over Oracle. >Although I am not yet a data warehouse spesialist it does seem like >Informix bring some significant benefits over Oracle if your >datawarehouse grows big (hundreds of GB to TB range). >:And before anybody who is in love with Informix flames me .... For the >:purposes of this question I think it reasonable to work on the premise that >:both are reasonably equivalent. >I wouldn't do that. Even though they haven't yet deploied to many of >their Universal Server it is a product far in front of anything Oracle >have or will have for quite some time. It's fasilities are very >usefull both in OLTP and datawarehouse environements. True Informix >have mostly emphazised it's ability to handle new and fancy datatypes. >However new ways of handling existing datatypes are at least as >interesting. As a big shop these people should be able to get their >hands on the Universal Server to try it out. According to a recent Computerworld (I think) article, a lot already did. They found a lot of it to be vaporware, at best beta. c