Re: Why not Informix?

<71003.70@compuserve.com> wrote: >My company I work for has an opportunity to develope software in partnership with another company. >That company utilizes the Informix database engine and Visual Basic. Of course their is additonal >software of some sort between the two. My company is also considering moving toward a client/sever >platform. We are primarily a mainframe shop utilizating Computer Associates IDMS for database >applications, as well as, many VSAM based applications. In light of the other companies investment, my >management has give me the task of finding out Why not Informix? In other words, why shouldn't we >also invest, knowing we could benefit from their expertise. >I'm a mainframe database administration, systems programmer type. I know very little of Informix, >Oracle, Sybase, or SQL Server. I'm not sure even where to start. What I've read about Informix, leads >me to believe that it is a viable product. I'm searching for "show stoppers" if any. Can you help? >Offer advice? Are you very happy with the product? >Thank you for any assistance you may offer. >David Chase >71003,70@compuserve.com I too came from and IMS DB2 background about 2 years ago. There is no reason you should not be able to use informix with the situation you stated above. I think you will find it very easy to learn informix dba and if you know db2 sql it will be easy to adjust to informix sql. When I switched informix was the easy part unix was much more difficult. Be sure to take the informix dba /sysadmin classes. The software inbetween visual basic and informix database can also be informix software. -- Tolly Brumbelow, Informix DBA email:tolly.brumbelow@bridge.bellsouth.com