Re: Informix beats Oracle
Data Cruncher wrote: > Only DBAs are database centric. As far as I am considered, Informix > has never let me down from jobs point of view. Last year I had three > offers. My head hunter quoted this "Informix is some sort of niche > skills, it is not dime-a-dozen skill set like Oracle". You are lucky and definitely not living in the US Pacific Northwest. > I don't care about job prospects for others. Specially > I would like my sons to not get into IT at all as I am not sure how > many IT jobs will still be in US when they get into work force. That's really rather sad. We are ceding the future to others. > BTW I also work with other RDBMSes. Most of the big corporations > in US have multiple RDBMS in house. That's certainly my experience. Which is why it amazes me that some people fixate on a single product with religious fervor. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>From: DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> > > I don't care about job prospects for others. Specially > > I would like my sons to not get into IT at all as I am not sure how > > many IT jobs will still be in US when they get into work force. > There will be IT jobs and there will be *IT* jobs. But the only profession that is truly an American invetion is lawyers. ;-) > > BTW I also work with other RDBMSes. Most of the big corporations > > in US have multiple RDBMS in house. > >That's certainly my experience. Which is why it amazes me that some >people fixate on a single product with religious fervor. Daniel, have you ever bothered to look in to the mirror lately? You're fixated on Oracle and your posts here have no value to the IDS DBA or app developer. The point of your posts is to create FUD. I work with a lot of different datbases and have even done some conversion work from Pick to IDS. (Every try to unload a pick database and load it in to a relational database? Its fun! But when I post here, I focus on IDS. I think that IDS is the best DB designed on the market today. Of course you'll disagree because you're an Oracle bigot. Do I work with Oracle? You betcha. Customer pays me to do Java, C/C++ Python or whatever tool, to solve a problem. And I work with IDS, DB2, Cloudscape/Derby and even Sybase if I had to. But that won't change my opinion on IDS. And no, it wasn't the first database that I've worked on. The first was one that I wrote for fetal anatomy studies. Then I spent time with Progress. So don't call those who post here fanatics, cause you're more of a fanatic since you post here. -G _________________________________________________________________ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the i'm Initiative now. It's free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_June07
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > But the only profession that is truly an American invetion is lawyers. ;-) "The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers." - Richard II, Act III, Scene 2 - William Shakespeare Not correct on that either it would seem. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)