Re: informix and oracle

Thomas Schumacher wrote: > > Hi everybody, > our company is developing software under UNIX/C and Informix. We have experience > with several Informix-releases. Most of them are good, especially Informix-Online > 7 (Informix 4 and 5 has serious problems with Index-access, the optimizer is very > poor in this releases. Allthough we plan to migrate our application to oracle, > because of two main reasons: > 1. The future of Informix is uncertain. Uncertain? an accounting snafu does not mean a company is about to go out of business and I seem to recall Oracle is just as guilty in the same practices. > 2. We don't want depend on one single DB-Company (pricing!) Okay but once you go Oracle aren't you inm the same boat? please elaborate why Oracle pricing is not single DB-company? > 3. We look for a faster Support in case of problems. Ha, obviously you have never tried to call Oracle support (I think this is the sole reason companies hire 20K/year programmers, i.e. to wait on the phone for Oracle support days at a time) you are in for an amazing dissapointment. > > We have no experience with oracle at all, but we will do first testing in January > 98. Obvious from your comments above, good luck! > Anyone who has more experience with migration is welcome to answer me directly > under ts.a-w.de . > > Bye > > Yan Zhu schrieb: > > > hi all: > > I am a newbie to database servers. my company needs to decide between > > informix or oracle server, could some one give me a list of pro and > > cons of informix vs oracle? > > > > Thanks a bunch. please email to yan@wwisp.com > > > > yan