Re: Largest Informix Database size
Greg Dewinter replied to Oracle's Mark Townsend in the Informix-versus-Oracle banter, claiming Informix was the only vendor to have fully rewritten its software in a decade. Mark said the newsgroup was just the funniest around. Thomas Parsli and Richard Thomas teased him in return. Light-hearted exchange with no technical question or answer.
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Mark, Nice to know that Oracle folks are actively monitoring informix news groups. I guess since you responded to this statement you must have felt treatened by the facts. Your statement about all the products being around for at least a decade is correct, but Informix is the only one that completely rewrote their software in that period of time, providing for cleaner code and a much more modular method of adding functionality. Oracle definitely adds funtionality in "different" ways as you say, but "different" isn't alway good. Greg Mark Townsend wrote: > Tim Schaefer wrote: > > > other cool stuff only available with XPS. Oracle cannot do this kind of data > > base management, and will probably NEVER have this capability. The only other > > contender that I know of might be DB2, but it too is so far behind XPS it will > > never get there. > > > Oracle is so far behind these products it isn't even > > in the same category. I think Oracle is at least 10 years behind Informix > > now in technology and engine design. The latest SQL-Server from Microsoft > > is probably more advanced than Oracle too. > > Bollocks. > > There ain't anything special in XPS that isn't also provided (albeit in > slightly different ways) by Oracle, DB2 or Teradata, on clusters of MPP > technology. XPS, DB2 and Teradata are all based on shared nothing > clustering, which requires one approach, Oracle uses shared disk, which > requires another. All have been around for 1 or more decades. You pays > you money and you takes you choice. > > -- > Regards, > > Mark Townsend
Greg Dewinter wrote: > > Mark, > > Nice to know that Oracle folks are actively monitoring informix news groups. Nah - it's just the most humorous NG out there at the moment. You guys are FUNNY ! -- Regards, Mark Townsend
Mark Townsend <mtownsen@us.oracle.com> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------64471B1EAEE05282DD6EBFDF > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Greg Dewinter wrote: > > > > Mark, > > > > Nice to know that Oracle folks are actively monitoring informix news groups. > > Nah - it's just the most humorous NG out there at the moment. You guys > are FUNNY ! That might be, but your vcard is not. Could you point out some of the funny parts so we all can have a laugh? Thomas
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:12:11 -0700, Mark Townsend <mtownsen@us.oracle.com> wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------64471B1EAEE05282DD6EBFDF >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Greg Dewinter wrote: >> >> Mark, >> >> Nice to know that Oracle folks are actively monitoring informix news groups. > >Nah - it's just the most humorous NG out there at the moment. You guys >are FUNNY ! That's because we don't work with software that causes massive sense of humour failure ;-)