Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

Michael Segel wrote: > Gee, didn't Oracle have a similar problem a few years back.Of course they > got their hand slapped and then they went back to > business as usual..... Dunno. Last I heard, sales haven't been too hot for their latest version. However, in the latest local version of ComputerWorld magazine I've just found these articles - "Oracle shift from client/server premature say users" and "Informix aims at a less-is-more database line." Nothing really exciting or noteworthy in either article really. > Oh! Totally true! It all boils down to customer satisfaction.Thats why one > has to look at the changes Bob F. has implemented. > Informix has a people problem. This is easier to solve than a technical > problem. Part of the Informix article mentions that Oracle is offering a 35% discount to Informix customers to switch over. Then it has the usual slanging quotes. > But hey, as an application developer, all 3 products meet 80% of my clients > needs, and > as the *client*/*server* technology goes forward, they will all look the > same to me :-) I think this should be the crux of the issue. Any SQL-oriented app should be written to work successfully on any SQL backend. Obviously, there are server-based issues that have to be dealt with. But its doable, because commercial products do exist. -am