Re: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)

Cisco is building applications for the equipment they sell. So, like hundreds of other ISVs, they can select which database(s) they build on. Cisco selected IDS for it's performance, reliability and rich feature set (I believe ER was of prime interest to Cisco). IDS outperformed the RBDMS product Cisco used before and other products tested by Cisco. If I recall correctly, IDS outperformed the "competition" out of the box and was then tuned to optimum performance levels. The fact that IDS can be configured and tuned such that it can run hands-free is also of great appeal to vendors like Cisco. On Aug 10, 2006, at 4:46 AM, Neil Truby wrote: > <eric@herber-consulting.de> wrote in message > news:1155199516.491500.282260@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> "Performance, Reliability, Simplicity..." this really describes >> IDS best. >> >> Are those the main reasons why Cisco decided to favour IDS >> instead of other commercial or free databases ? > > As has been pointed out by others, it is usually the application > that drives > the database selection. Not sure of this particualr case. > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list Christine Normile Analyst INFORMRme Magazine 1.800.914.8674 Ext. 713 1.210.438.7736 mobile christine@MyINFORM-me.com