Progress

I am getting a "little" frustrated with a guy here that keeps insisting Informix is crap, and Progress is the best database in the world. Anyone who knows Progress & Informix, please send me some stuff Informix can do that Progress can't. I know this is not fair, I just want some backup the next time he tells me Progress is the best. It's either that or I have to shoot him to shut up ... sending to informix-list

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:57:31 +0200, "Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote: > >I am getting a "little" frustrated with a guy here that keeps insisting >Informix is crap, and Progress is the best database in the world. > >Anyone who knows Progress & Informix, please send me some stuff Informix >can do that Progress can't. I know this is not fair, I just want some >backup the next time he tells me Progress is the best. > >It's either that or I have to shoot him to shut up ... > >sending to informix-list Of course, you could have him put up or shut up . . . . have him state his case why Progress is 'better'.

Dirk Moolman wrote: > > I am getting a "little" frustrated with a guy here that keeps insisting > Informix is crap, and Progress is the best database in the world. > > Anyone who knows Progress & Informix, please send me some stuff Informix > can do that Progress can't. I know this is not fair, I just want some > backup the next time he tells me Progress is the best. > > It's either that or I have to shoot him to shut up ... Shoot him, it's quicker and less stressful for both of you. In a practical sense, it's difficult to compare them, because Progress has a very rich 4GL that is inherently part of of the environment. Progress's website is so opaque and difficult to find things in, it actually make's IBM's look good. <read, read, read> OK, well, on the basics, it seems Progress is OK, but they have a pretty complete software stack. So they wouldn't make it possible for the database to do stuff like hide a screen scrape from someone else's website in the database, they'd probably make it available in the middleware stack. I'd also be fairly gobsmacked if they could do stuff like allow you to do things like implement your own secondary access mechanisms or create totally new data types. I'd say from a functionality point of view, it's probably on a par with 7.24 or thereabouts, but the problem is convincing people who are used to RDBMSs that object-relation extensions have any value. I'm busy climbing that mountain with a customer right now, and it's very slippery... :o) -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"