Re: WWW.INFORMIX.COM - Nils, of course, right?

I just relize from reareading your post that you didn't actually complain about the server itself, but simply the graphics they display on the home page. I first read it as a complaint about their datablade techonology. I was far too fast, and appologize for my then more than unfortunate wording, and hope you can accept that. Informix are overusing graphics some. This may lead to slow opening of pages on slow links. This is sadly a general trend on the net. People don't seem to understand that it's information we are after, and the beauty of it is secondary, but can be achieved well with simpler graphics. They have also commited the grave error of including nothing but images on their home page. If you turn off automatic loading of images the page isn't even funny. They have even left out the usual text displayed in place of the images on many other sites. They should definitely change this. Their linking structure is also far too deep currently to get to interesting information quickly unless you know the correct URL to go directly to. It remains however that from our location the Informix web site is among the fastest of those I visit (and I visit many). As you say there may be many reasons, but this is only an observation from here. Silicon <silicon@pacbell.net> wrote: :Nils, : :Any one or more of the following may explain why your performance :can be 10 seconds from a distance that is 30,000,000+ feet from Informix in :Menlo Park, but from the Menlo Park area I loaded the same page :in 12x+ the speed = 125 seconds. : :#1. your pages could be cached at a gateway to your own corporate : location, you knew this was a possiblity, right? : :#2. your pages could be cached by your ISP, you knew about this too, right? : :#3. the Informix pages could be cached by one of the Internet : backbone cache servers - I know you knew about these babies, right? : :#4. Informix may have multiple distributed Web servers to improve : performance throughout the world, of course your understanding : of web servers and distributing large web sites would make : you aware of these too, right? : :#5. the Informix Web page could be cached on your own browser/hardware, : there is no way you could have missed something as embarassing : as this one, right? right? no, is this true? : :#6. your time of usage and your ISP/Internet connection may be : providing you with a rather unique combination of speed, well, : I might discount this possibility given some simple time-zone math, : but did you think about this, of course, right? : :#7. you have a faster ISP connection/less congestion, I can believe this : one, but did you think of this, of course, right? : :Now some combination of #1 to #7 may explain the performance differences :you will see to any Web site. : :Now if Informix chooses to place large graphics on their home page then :they have made the decision that many users will see slow performance :when loading their home page - that was Informix's decision. : :As for you asking that everyone sign off the Internet and stop using :Informix's Web server so that you can benchmark how fast the Informix :Web server is with one user, that may be your bizarre understanding :of how to respond to an inquiry about the speed of accessing :WWW.INFORMIX.COM, which is reflected completely in your responses too. : :The next time you need an enterprise database, I have this awesome :dBase solution that I'll sell to "just you" for just $250,000, I can show :that with one user accessing one record at 02:00 GMT that it is really :fast. : :Why do you waste your time with Informix when you are such an idiot? : :dBase is perfect for you, I mean, you may have to push your brain a bit :to decide on how to open the dBase shrinkwrap, and I know putting the 3.5" :diskettes into the drive may be a major task for you, but I'll step you :through the process. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org