Re: Informix: Please buy Borland

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:52:53 GMT, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: >Oracle have reasantly announced they will integrate Visigenics CORBA >compatible object request broker with their engine. .. >If an ORB where deliverable with the Informix engines at very >reasonable prices (perhaps included with the engine) this technology >would take off. I would agree, provided that: 1) transactional support for heterogeneous databases is included; 2) good tool support is provided. Both these qualities have tended to be missing from ORBs to date. (For further discussion, read T.J. Hart, "Questioning Corba," DBMS (March, 1997), pp. 52-53.) --- Richard A. Schulman // For email reply, be sure to remove the two anti-spamming // asterisks that will appear in the "to" field of your reply.