Re: Informix vs. Oracle

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A486AC38EB652B54BABD2FD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Schaefer wrote: > Nibblus wrote: > > > > Can anyone give me a non-commercial comparison of Informix versus Oracle? > > > > Arvid Claassen, last year computer sciences at Antwerp University > > There is no comparison. Oracle is a bucket of bolts, old technology, > band-aids, and wired together into a hodgepodge of junk. > > Informix is simply better, with newer technology, scalable, and faster > than Oracle, especially with regards to data warehousing. > I have worked in Oracle and Sybase environment before. Now I have to work in Informix environment. But I now nothing about Informix. Please tell me where to start learning about Informix. Thanks! Oh, BTW, can anyone can recommand a good JDBC drive for Informix? -- RC Square Team. --------------A486AC38EB652B54BABD2FD2 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Chui /Chen, Raymond/Ruiming Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Raymond/Ruiming Chui /Chen n: Chui /Chen;Raymond/Ruiming org: RC Square adr: ;;;;;;U.S.A. email;internet: rctwo@erols.com title: CS tel;work: 301-498-8959 tel;fax: 301-498-8959 tel;home: URL http://www.erols.com/rctwo/ note: Raymond Chui & Ruiming Chen Company x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------A486AC38EB652B54BABD2FD2--