Re: a comparison of different databases

David Williams wrote: > > Phil Edwards wrote: > >Technically Oracle is ahead of the field. What you need to consider is > >whether this means a more stable product or simply one with lots of > >additional features. > What makes you say Oracle is ahead of the field?? Short answer: er, pass. As an AS/400-oriented journalist I couldn't possibly start listing the positive features of an RDBMS that's not available on the platform... backtrack, backtrack... Slightly longer answer: in my previous job I conducted an evaluation of Oracle against Sybase, Informix and Ingres (not DB2); Oracle came out way ahead. Also (for the DB2 crowd), there was a discussion about Oracle vs DB2/400 on the AS/400 newsgroup recently. The consensus seemed to be "OK so Oracle's ahead, _but_..." (you don't need all those features/it's not as stable). -- Phil Edwards phil@news400.com Editor, NEWS/400.UK +44 (0)161 929 0777