Re: Advice for an Oracle Jock

> > Oracle has a bit of a technology edge right now. If the specific problems >you will be asked to address fall in that area AND you must solve it quickly, >then choose Oracle. But, you will pay and pay and pay through the nose for >the convenience. This edge is in the distributed database area. I believe >that Informix has not solved ( or released at any rate ) a multiple machine >fully distributed DBMS. I think Oracle offers that. Perhaps the Informix >monitor can comment on that. > Please define "a multiple machine fully distributed DBMS". With the current version of Informix you can access tables from different databases on different machines within the same query. Also you can update/insert/delete data from several machines/databases within the same transaction. Finally data replication across machines is available.What else is required? -- David Williams