Re[2]: FW: FREE ORACLE SOFTWARE!

Thomas Kyte wrote: }1993 - PC magazine runs evaluation. PC magazine picks hardware. }Database Vendors Pick OS. Lets see what was chosen in 93: } }Oracle - Novell - v7 }Informix - Novell - v4 } }Ok, same hardware, same OS, no problem. } }1993 - Same constraints. PC Mag picks hardware, Database Vendors }picks OS. Lets see what was chosen again: } }Oracle - Novell - v7.0.16 }Informix - SCO (that would be unix wouldn't it?) - v5.01 } }So I guess if you think that of course a database running on UNIX will }outperform a database running on 'DOS' (which perhaps you confused }Novell NOS with DOS), then this is pretty good... This line of reasoning is all well and good with SCO UNIX running on a -- let me guess -- PC(?) in 1993(!) with Oracle v7.x and Informix v5.x. Are there any benchmarks by anyone supporting your allegation that Oracle performs faster/better than Informix 7.1 using a leading midrange computer running a leading flavor of UNIX in, say, the year 1995?? Just curious. After all: I could be wrong. Don Boothby DBA for State of Indiana