Re: DBMS Selection for 500+GB data and 500

informix@ucs.att.com (informix@ucs.att.com) wrote: > > > >Oracle is the only proven solution on the market for your problem. > ... > >available to handle large DSS. > > > Spoken like a true Oracle aficiando. Unfortunately, your so-called > facts just ain't so, Leonard. > > Informix's products are, in fact, proven in real live situations ... > > I would advise anyone interested to read the Gartner Group's report and read > the REAL facts. Computerworld (3/20/95, p.32) reports that "'Informix had the > better architecture by far,' said Howard Fischer, senior project manager for > database services at Sears Merchandise Group in Hoffman Estates, Ill." > Hear, Hear, Lets see some more quotes from that article: (And grab those gartner group reports, they are the best thing for Oracle or haven't you read one lately?) SUBJECT: INFORMIX FIGHTS ALSO-RAN IMAGE SOURCE: Computerworld via First! by Individual, Inc. DATE: March 18, 1995 INDEX: [1] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... "Few observers said they expect Informix to overtake Sybase's No. 2 market share slot or knock Oracle Corp. out of its leading position." .. "To compete with the heavyweights, Informix spent the past four years bulking up its OnLine database and tools. And 1995 is the year that effort will either pay off or peter out,..." Comment-- I don't think people would want to go with someone who will 'pay off' or 'peter out'. Hate to be around if they 'peter out' after making the decision to go with them.... "Informix has consistently chosen to build new technology fresh, rather than redesign older products in baby steps that would not disrupt existing customers, .. Today, the vendor faces an installed base of 4GL users with no convenient migration path to the 8-month-old New Era tool." Comment-- Thats not a very nice thing to do.... ... "However, relatively weak third-party support has discouraged some potential customers..." "Most independent software vendors that make report writers, manufacturing applications, systems management utilities and the like port their packages to Oracle first, then Sybase, Finkelstein said. Informix is a distant third, and some suppliers never bother with an Informix port at all." "Informix has been an afterthought for top applications software companies, White acknowledged." ... Comment-- Its pretty easy to take one quote out of an article and use it to make a point, however the article in general is not something your Informix Sales rep will handing out if you read the *whole* thing. Hey, while we are taking a look at quotes (even some gartner group quotes in this one).... SUBJECT: NCUBE AND ORACLE DEMONSTRATE SCALABLE SOLUTION FOR VERY LARGE DATABASES SOURCE: Business Wire via First! by Individual, Inc. DATE: February 27, 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .. "The system demonstrated virtually no performance degradation as the number of Oracle instances scaled to 60, 120, 240, and 440 processors -- 10 times more than our nearest competitor -- which is critical in the successful implementation of VLDBs. More importantly, this performance translates directly to increased savings and greater productivity for our customers." .. "The significance of running 440 instances of Oracle comes not only through the demonstration of scalability and price/performance, but this further demonstrates Oracle's understanding of the complexity of coordinating many Oracle instances against a single image database," .. "Parallel processing systems are causing fundamental changes in the way corporations use their data," stated Howard Richmond, vice president of high-performance commercial computing for the Gartner Group. "nCUBE and Oracle are setting new performance standards for open database computing." > Informix's OnLine 7.1 runs rings around Oracle (whose representatives keep turning > Have you actually used Oracle 7.1 or are you guessing? Whose facts "just ain't so" > Bill Williams > > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Disclaimer: My views, opinions, etc., are not those of AT&T or | > | or ATSI, Inc, nor should they be. | > +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com