Re: Informix vs Oracle, alleged trade secret theft

In article <5cclfg$8g2@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Billy Wheeler <billy@west.co.za> writes >On 24 Jan 97 at 10:56, Yomama Sophat wrote: > >> (Referring to the latest www.news.com) >> Some questions for discussion: >> >> 1) Who's in the right? > >Who knows? But based on previous experience with Oracle, I'd say they >rarely occupy the moral high ground... :-) > I agree. >> 2) Who will win in the end? > > >So: who will win what? This battle? I suspect Informix. The War? >Oracle will probably always be a bigger company, but Informix are >damn keen to be the biggest *database* company. > I disagree. It may take some time but I think Informix will overtake Oracle. >> 3) Who's got the better technology? > >Informix. Unquestionably. Yeap. >On a slightly smaller scale, alright, a >*much* smaller scale here in South Africa, a former Oracle bigwig >left to join Informix. He says (over a few beers after the sales >spiel was finished) that he has no doubt that Informix has better >technology. He basically gave the mirror image of what the Orable >bods said. It's all marketing bulldooky, anyway! :-) > Ha!...Never did like Oracle anyway, >But if you look at Informix's technical strategy, they are attempting >to build an open architecture for their engines to allow the >integration of new technologies at the core, whereas Oracle still >seem to follow the "bolt-on" approach. > >I would imagine that if Oracle did a total rewrite of their engine, >they might be in a position to challenge Informix from a >technological perspective, but I can't see it happening soon... > Like I said before Informix had the balls to reqrite the engine and make it truely parallel. Ok so the engine is unstable for a while (6.0,7.0,7.10,7.11,7.12,7.13,7.20,7.21) but in the end it is a better design and truely refelects the idea of moving away from a single CPU machine. -- David Williams