Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Pablo Sanchez (news_reader@mew.corp.sgi.com) wrote: [ a reply, snipped ] Pablo, Have a look at the evidence. The only way to make DBMS stuff like intra-query parallelism, or tens of thousands of concurrent connections work, is to have your DBMS understand multiple, concurrent execution contexts. Now, *you* may choose not to call this multi-threading. You may choose to speak swahili. No one is going to stop you, but no one will understand you either. Second, the engineers who implement DBMSs are not fools or ingrates. They work in incredibly competitive circumstances. They live and die by the micro-seconds. If they thought they could get one iota more performance by using the OSs facilities, they would. They are certainly not perfect, and their opinions differ on many things, but not on this point. KR Pb