Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. SQL Server vs. Oracle

Seth Grimes wrote: > <snip> > Penny wise, pound foolish. What do Oracle and Informix run on > a 2-processor Windows NT machine, $8k or so? "Total cost of ownership" > is a hot topic recently, and computing TCO is generally dominated by > labor costs and not hardware or software costs. <snip> Did you say "not hardware and software costs", then why do people want to use Windows NT, whose future is to be seen, and campaign for Linux port for Informix. The question is where you want to draw the line between performance / reliability and cost. When cost isn't a a factor SGI's or any other vendor's, 64-bit Unix, higher end machine, could give a fantastic performance. Who will even think about Sybase and SQL Server, if not for the price advantage. -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com