Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request
Its a troll bait argument. The fact is that Oracle employees know that the statement is true. There is a very, very large Informix shop that runs with only a handfull of DBAs. They also know that IBMers and exIBMers (Myself Included) are not allowed to talk about their customers. To give you a better example, Informix ran an ad that stated "9 out of 10 phone calls go through an Informix database." (I'm paraphrasing. I have that poster stashed at my mother in law's basement.) Its a true statement. Only thing is that each company treats the fact that they use Informix as a dirty little secret because its their competitive advantage. Note: I do support multiple databases from multiple database vendors. I like Informix because it is easy to maintain and its well developed. (Extensibility anyone?) ;-) But getting back on the point. How many Informix customers sued Informix due to muck ups on setting up things like SAP? (Nike seems to come to mind....) But hey! What do I know? I'm dumb enough to volunteer and run for an IIUG Board seat. ;-) >I could, but I'm not allowed to. >Quite possibly this is because customer thinks >he has such a big advantage by using IDS, that they don't >want to spread the word much. But I can't tell what they >are really thinking, i.e. what really is the reason they don't >allow me. > >Regards, Martin >-- >Martin Fuerderer >IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany >Information Management > >Informix URLs list: http://home.arcor.de/mfu1/informix/urls.html > >informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 14.12.2006 17:43:23: > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > Mark Townsend said: > > >> So name a few. Name of company, number of instances, versions, number >of > > >> DBAs. Proof is king. > > > > > > And a prospecting list for a hungry Oracle salesman. > > > > > > We all know Informix is easier to run than Oracle. Why don't YOU open >your > > > kimono first? Why don't you show us why we're wrong? > > > > Because he asked first? How's that for a good reason? > > > > The sad truth is that you can't back up your statement with an example. > > > > Because if you could have ... you would have. > > -- > > Daniel A. Morgan > > University of Washington > > damorgan@x.washington.edu > > (replace x with u to respond) > > Puget Sound Oracle Users Group > > www.psoug.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-list@iiug.org > > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > >_______________________________________________ >Informix-list mailing list >Informix-list@iiug.org >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ WIN up to $10,000 in cash or prizes ' enter the Microsoft Office Live Sweepstakes http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0050001581mrt/direct/01/
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Its a troll bait argument. > > The fact is that Oracle employees know that the statement is true. Not one now. Never been one. Likely Mark Townsend, and others, would be driven to violence if I tried to become one. <g> So I am sincerely interested in knowing who it is and how many of those instances actually used for line-of-business. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org
> >Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Its a troll bait argument. > > > > The fact is that Oracle employees know that the statement is true. > >Not one now. >Never been one. >Likely Mark Townsend, and others, would be driven to violence if I tried >to become one. <g> >So I am sincerely interested in knowing who it is and how many of those >instances actually used for line-of-business. So what you're actually saying is that Oracle turned you down. ;-) (Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-P Seriously, we (IBMers and exIBMers) can't say. But your Oracle rep(s) should know. If they don't, then they don't know their industry. But there's been enough talk that only a maroon doesn't know who we're talking about. -G _________________________________________________________________ Get the latest Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta version.'Join now. http://ideas.live.com