Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Posted in 1997

Pablo Sanchez — 2 Jun 1997 14:43:43 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <01bc6e57$5fdd9ae0$618285ce@ian>, "Ian Sparkes" <sparkes@sprintmail.com> writes: > I would also be interested in hearing why you feel Informix is a better > choice for a large data warehouse. > > The major differentiation between Oracle and Informix is normally the > available tools. Specifically, Informix has nothing like Designer/2000 and > having a powerful tool to manage schemas is real critical in a large > warehouse. > At the risk of sounding boring, I'd have to agree with Ian. If this shop is already Oracle, why incur the cost of retooling people to learn another RDBMS. I see Ian's point that for all intents and purposes an RDBMS is an RDBMS is an RDBMS. -- Pablo Sanchez | wk: 415.933.3812| pg: 800.930.5635 -or- pablo_p@pager.sgi.com --------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------- pablo@sgi.com ... when mailing me, place "not spam" in the Subject