Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. SQL Server vs. Oracle

Posted in 1998

Seth Grimes — 6 Jan 1998 11:00:02 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"Laura P. Grahame" <lpgz@mindspring.com> writes: >Oracle caused the company owner to go into sticker shock. Although it >appears by far the most stable and is apparently more ODBC compliant than >say, Sybase or Informix. I anticipate that Fox is likely to be in place as >a front end tool for a while as he began as a Fox programmer and is most >comfortable in that environment. Penny wise, pound foolish. What do Oracle and Informix run on a 2-processor Windows NT machine, $8k or so? "Total cost of ownership" is a hot topic recently, and computing TCO is generally dominated by labor costs and not hardware or software costs. Anyway, another DBMS to consider on Windows NT is IBM DB2. Seth -- -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Internet & database design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes