Re: a comparison of different databases

Mark D Stock wrote: > > Phil Edwards wrote: > > > > David Williams wrote: > > > > > > Phil Edwards wrote: > > > > > >Technically Oracle is ahead of the field. <SNIP> > > > > > What makes you say Oracle is ahead of the field?? > > > > Short answer: er, pass. As an AS/400-oriented journalist I couldn't > ><SNIP> > > 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. <SNIP> > > Mmmmm. This sounds like the product of a marketing whirlpool to me. The independant > analysts say Informix are TWO years ahead in the market. So to use some Informix > marketing, they say that if these so called analysts are 50% WRONG, then ONE > years lead in this market puts Informix well ahead. > I guess I am a techie too, but I happen to be in charge of a multi-million project for a government agency. Based upon my suggestion, our client purchased 15 copies of Informix OnLine 7.x database servers and a couple hundred licenses for PC clients. All our applications are dealing with images in BLOB. All databases are ANSI standard databases with OLTP. We have one terabyte main database with 3 optical jukeboxes and 3 tape jukeboxes. The first production sub-system was delievered over a year ago. The second sub-system has just been completed, the third sub-system (the last one) will be completed by April 1997. Our clients have been stated in many many occasions that they are extremely satisfied with our applications. I hope it says all.