Re: Informix to Oracle Migration

DA Morgan said: > Girish wrote: > >> We have an application written in Informix 4gl and Esql/C which >> communicates with Informix database. >> >> We are doing an exercise of migrating this application from Informix >> to Oracle database. For compiling this, right now Hydra compiler is >> used which is a third party tool from QueriX. We are facing some >> issues with this tool because of license restrictions. >> >> If anybody has any info about any other such tool which can compile >> Informix4gl code communicating with Oracle database, please reply to >> my ID. > > I would strongly urge you to not do that which you are contemplating. > The underlying concepts and architecture of Oracle are substantially > different from those in Oracle and likely you will be lucky if it is > just unscalable and performs poorly. To work in an environment with > multiversion read consistency where reads don't block writes and writes > don't block reads means recoding. I agree with the heffalump, but it seems to me that Oracle's official response would be "chuck more tin at it..." -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco Travel broadens a person. You look as if you have been all over the world. I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/Obnoxio/thinkIfoundtheproblem.jpg sending to informix-list