Re: Best Hardware/Database Combo

DBA Resources (dbaresrc@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : M. Livenspargar (michaell@sonic.net) wrote: : >The Hardware choices: HP-9000 and RS/6000 : >The Database choices: Informix, Sybase, Oracle : Not having extensive financial resources myself, I tend to look at what the : big "wins" are what combination of products these companies are using. All : three DB vendors will continue to win accounts but the momentum is swinging : to Informix 'cause it just plain *works* and has the architecture to continue : blowing the doors off Sybase and Oracle. : As far as hardware is concerned, again I go to the big wins and HP is taking : them all. That's odd! Where do our big wins appear from then? We only ever lose a race to HP when the customer either can't afford, or doesn't need to buy the best. Unfortunately, they get to start a lot more races than we do. Like the one above. They say they want the best. But they don't bother to evaluate the best. : HP and Informix have a performance lab where the Informix software : is tweeked to run a efficiently and as quickly as possible. They (HP & Now that I am jealous of. : Informix) have a good thing going. : Carlton : -- : Carlton Doe "It's not *over* until I win!" : DBA Resources, Inc. -- Les Brown : Salt Lake City, UT : carlton@errin.dbaresrc.com http://xmission.com/~dbaresrc -- graeme -- Disclaimer: The author's opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of Pyramid Technology Ltd. or Pyramid Technology Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -m------- Graeme Sargent Voice: +44 (0)252 373035 ---mmm----- Senior Database Consultant Fax : +44 (0)252 373135 -----mmmmm--- Pyramid Technology Ltd. Telex: Tell who??? -------mmmmmmm- Farnborough, Hants GU14 7PL Email: graeme@pyra.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the technology. The tricky bit is learning how to use it.