Re: There needs to be a free Informix Express

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > But we're talking about IDS vs Oracle and DB2 commercial versions. > If your database needs were simple enough to use a dumbed down version > of DB2, you might as well go with Postgres. If you need commercial > support, you can always get licensing cheaper than you could for > either Oracle, DB2 and alas, IDS. The "dumbed down" of Oracle limits the number of CPUs and the size of the database ... not the features. A free IDS could, similarly, limit to a single CPU and 4GB of storage. If your response is that these would qualify as large IDS shops then you've got a bit of a problem. Oracle has now defined "large database" to mean greater than 200TB. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)