Re: migration from Oracle to Informix

In article <6u9slh$lae$1@news.xmission.com>, Umesh Chandra Singhal <usl@support.wipro.co.in> wrote: > > hi, > > we are migrating one of our application from oracle 8/pro*c/pl*sql on solaris > to informix server/Esql*c/pl*sql on NT. > has any of you been involved in such kind of migration? > and can someone point me to literature on differences b/w the two servers, so > that the conversion is easy ? > > thanks in advance > > Umesh Singhal, > _________________________________________________________________________ > > Email : usl@ho.wipro.co.in "I cannot give you the formula for success, > Tele : 91-11-6473265 (ext 125) but I can give you the formula for failure : > Fax : 91-11-6220292 -- Try to please everybody." > _________________________________________________________________________ > > uuhhhh, don't even think about it. oracle has its pro's and con's and so has informix. but moving from sun to nt will give you nothing but trouble. nt is much more instable than solaris sun hw has much more throughput than any intel box scalability and manageability are nearly foreign languages to nt can you live with a db-server going down often? have you ever tried to use raw devices with nt (and how to backup them ?) so: don't even think about it! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own