Re: Informix 7.2 vs. Oracle 7.3 on 64-bit Digital Alpha Ser

}>>>>>>>>> Perry's response to David Sidwell <<<<<<<<<< Get a life Sidwell. Informix kicks Oracle butt all day long. Forget all the speed and builtin, not bolt-on, paralellism and multi-threading. Informix is way easier to setup and administer than Oracle. I'd buy it just for that reason alone. Oh yeah, it also uses less machine resources so I don't have to spend a tonne on memory, I can spend a little extra on another CPU or two since Informix can utilize memory better, and I get more paralellism with more CPU's. This is a moot discussion. Oracle is more interested in building internet devices than providing real databases anyway. Informix has nothing to worry about. Informix is the best. I said it, you heard it, that settles it! } Date: 27 Mar 96 08:57:25 -0800 } From: "David Sidwell" <DASIDWEL@us.oracle.com> } To: bw000001@pixie.co.za } Subject: Re: Informix 7.2 vs. Oracle 7.3 on 64-bit Digital Alpha Ser } Cc: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu } } } Billy, } } >> [snip for brevity - (more chest-beating and } >> complete Informix customer list removed)] } } >That's _really_ low, even for an Oracle employee. } } >Anyway, it's pretty damn odd that Oracle's posts of a similar } >nature are not considered "chest-beating" (by an Oracle } >employee.) } } They're not considered "chest-beating" ????? What makes you so } sure ? } } Benchmarking is a game of leap-frogging - whoever has the } higher numbers *at that time* will engage in a spot of } chest-beating. Isn't it rather strange that you do not } recognise this trait ? } } >Still, it's must be nice for Informix marketing to know that } >the Oracle people who read this group are sufficiently } >paranoid to make such juvenile posts about "chest-beating". It } >must mean that they're worried that it might be true... } } Paranoid ? No, I know they're out to get me :) } } Worried, with an ever increasing market lead ? I don't think } so. } } Isn't it *ever* so strange that you failed to comment on the } reason for my post in the first place - to set the record } straight about relative costs. The post I responded to } appeared to have a blatant lie regarding cost of the Oracle } system vs. the cost of the informix one. Hence my post. } } Still judging by your previous posts, I shouldn't be surprised } when you ignore the obvious valid points and only carp on the } editing I performed to reduce bandwidth. } } >Affectionately yours, } } Right back at you. } Regards, } } David Sidwell. } } -perryd (Guru) ==================================================================== = Perry Dillard - Chief Architect Direct Dial: (206)517-6430 = = FourGen Software, Inc. FAX: (206)522-0054 = = FourGen Building Tech. Support: (800)444-3398 = = 115 NE 100th Street Sales: (800)333-4436 = = Seattle, W.A. 98125-8098 = = = = e-mail: perryd@fourgen.com Web Site http://www.fourgen.com = = = = Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3198 = ====================================================================