Re: Informix beats Oracle

Serge Rielau wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: >> No CTO has ever purchased an RDBMS based on efficient use of CPU. >> Instead of following the bouncing ball how about asking IBM to make the >> same changes to Informix they just made to Viper 2 so it will support >> major business applications? > Hmmm... nice stitching. IDS has traditionally watched Oracle closer than > DB2 has, so many of the features you allude to are already present (like > DECODE, UNIQUE, Oracle sequence syntax...). also IDS has "readers don't > block writers, ..." which eliminated the perhaps single biggest > stumbling block for porting Oracle apps. > > Cheers > Serge I thought the single biggest stumbling blocks was IBM management. That's certainly what I hear. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)