Re: Informix first on Linux, not Oracle

Do really want to compare Informix SE with Oracle 8? Best regards Stefan On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:43:14 -0600 (CDT), proteus@romus.com (proteus) wrote: >In the article http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27836,00.html >about Informix launching Dynamic Server and Dynamic >4GL for Linux I saw the next sentence: > >Informix joins Netscape Communications, Oracle, and Sybase in >porting products to Linux. > >The truth is that Informix launched their SE database server and >the E-SQL/C in july 1998, and so Oracle and Sybase are >those who "Joined the crowd". It's not the first time when the >agressive marketing of the Oracle camed before the higher >quality of the Informix products. > >I don't have many bad things too say about news.com (I get and >read their news reports daily) but sometimes they must be >more careful about things like this. When many people read that >Informix is following Oracle's lead, there is chance that they >will even start to believe it. And that would be a very big >mistake since Informix (my opinion) has far better products than >Oracle. > >Regards, > >Sebastian Paul Avarvarei >E-mail: proteus@romus.com > > >http://messages.cnet.com Your information exchange place. >http://messages.cnet.com/software/ Join Now!