RE: Informix beats Oracle

Large companies are collections of small groups of people. I can't speak to or for Verizon, nor can I really add to what I've already said. You are welcome to believe what you like, I'll carry around my salt-shaker. j. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Data Cruncher Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 8:48 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Informix beats Oracle On Jun 17, 9:04 pm, "Jack Parker" <jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote: > I have to play DA here. > > I've put some time in with Orrible. It's not a bad database. Better at > some things, not as good at others. I can understand the EULA and have not > challenged it - recognizing that my Orrible knowledge is only good, not > great. If you let just anybody benchmark your software against another > package, then the resultant benchmark will be a product of that persons > knowledge of the two products. Oh c'mon. This may be true for a small company where they don't have specialised RDBMS skills, but in all large oraganizations running multiple RDBMS, they do keep specialized RDBMS skills. In the Verizon case I mentioned below, do you want me to believe that some Oracle idiot would have tuned it and let SS beat it. I do think EULA is a nice way to filter out damning information, as it use to be in former Soviet Union or Communist China. Just a quick question. Has anyone ever read a benchmark result from a customer where Oracle was shown to be beaten by other database. The "written permission from Oracle" will never be given under various pretext if Oracle is beaten. > The last time I took Oracle 10 training, the guy sitting next to me > from Verizon Wireless told me that they datawarehouse application > runs on SQL Server. Every year, like sessional allergies, > Oracle pimps at Verizon > start asking question "why are we using sequal server, we should > try Oracle". But the DW folks are smarter than them. They have > a canned queries when they run on two identitical databases > (after allowing the oracle one to be 'fine tuned' by Oracle experts). > Result: SS beats Oracle all the time and my friends colleagues > tell them "Ok. this is your lesson for this year. see ya next year". > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-l...@iiug.orghttp://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list