Re: Getting more support from Informix

In article <zorbaCn32Hp.FuE@netcom.com> zorba@netcom.com (Harry Skelton) writes: > >Yes, perhaps I'm venting steam. But it seems that Informix does not >understand the Unix marketplace nor does it understand that when there is a >problem with the product, they are not willing to fix the product without >major and just cause. I know this sounds like a flame, but let's get real. Informix has sold more copies of RDBMS software to Unix customers EVERY year since the dawn of man, and in fact sold TWICE as many copies as Oracle/Sybase/Ingres/Progress combined last year. The product is literally GLUED to Unix so tightly, and always has been. First with on line backup,integrated mirroring,blobs,PDQ...which by the way I have in another xterm session where I just completed a measely two table join (245,000 inside (124byte rows)/1,300,000 outside(332 byte rows) in 1 minute 8 seconds. This with ONLY 4 Symmetry Model E's, and table fragmented by round robin over 7 drives! Fast. ________________ Kevin A. Closson, Senior Technical Support Engineer voice: (503)578-3072 World Wide Technical Support, Database Group FAX: (503)578-5453 Sequent Computer Systems 15450 SW Koll Pkwy (MS WIL1-502) UUCP: ..uunet!sequent!kevinc Beaverton, Oregon 97006-6063 internet: kevinc@sequent.com