Re: Tall Tails

kmart!jregep@uunet.uu.net wrote: > > >I would advise you talk to your Oracle Sales Consultant and find out the > >truth behind Informix's tall tails that they have the only architecture > >available to handle large DSS. > > Correct me if I'm wrong... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Informix has the only architecture available to handle large DSS on a > _UNIX_ platform. > I'll bite. Your wrong. Explain otherwise. Tell us *why* informix has the *only* architecture. I'll give you 500+ gig Oracle refs on Unix (rapidly approaching 1 terabyte). How about Informix? Oh yah, these sites handle hundreds/thousands of users too. > I could tell my clients to buy mainframes when their business doubles or > triples but that would put me out of business (They'd fire me for > suggesting they spend millions of dollars on a hardware solution that > also requires total rewrite of software with a combersome tool). > But you would be wrong here too. Maybe with Informix having different versions depending on the size of the machine (4.x on Netware, 5.x on something larger, 6.x on something a little bigger, 7.x on something else) you would have to have a rewrite for each of the incompatible version. On the other hand with Oracle 7.1 in production on everything from WINDOWS to MVS (same set of functionality to boot), you wouldn't have to re-write anything, period. BTW, at least with Oracle you would have the *opportunity* to suggest a mainframe :) Beside, no one would suggest a mainframe for a simple doubling or tripling of business. Add a CPU, add a disk/controllers, add some RAM. Its not that *hard* to figure out. > Please spread half truths someplace else. > -- > Please spread complete falsehoods to alt.conspiracy (with the rest of em'). > kmart!jregep [My spelling is my way of expressing my individualality.] Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com