Re: Which Unix DBMS?

>> Save the comparison and use informix. >> > >For small systems possibly. This is an old bias that is no longer true. Read industry analysts (Garner, IDC/TIS, Seybold, Hurwitz, Butler) and they will tell you that Informix scales the best for large systems. >For speed of the RDBMS and rapid development use Unify/Accell. Unify has been dead as a major RDBMS for many years. >For distributed DBs use Sybase. Sybase no longer offers anything over Oracle or Informix in distributed database support. They once did, but not anymore. >For mixed hosts (Unix, VMS) use Oracle. Informix doesn't run on VMS, so Oracle may be your only choice there. > >The RDBMS is usually decided for you when you buy the application you need. >This is where Oracle win, as there are a vast number of applications written >in it and Oracle have the size to back them up. More applications and more VARS run on Informix than Oracle by a long shot. We have more VARs than Oracle and Sybase put together. Since Oracle sells its own applications software, they compete with their VARs. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Randall Rhea Systems Engineer Informix Software randall@informix.com