Has Walmart.com switched from Oracle to Informix

Posted in 2004

rkusenet — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:16:27 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I knew that Walmart stores use Informix. They are an old customer of Informix. But I thought that Walmart.com (their online store) uses Oracle. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=47902662 "Wal-Mart's common IT foundation is textbook, but not often seen in the real world. Now Wal-Mart is engaged in bringing its online operations onto a common platform as well. An initiative dubbed Global.com that encompasses the retailer's online sites -- http://www.walmart.com, http://www.samsclub.com, http://www.asda.com, and http://www.walmartmexico.com.mx -- will move by 2005 from the disparate technology platforms on which they were developed onto a Java-based platform running on IBM's WebSphere and an Informix database. That way, "scalability is easier to maintain," says Matt Carey, VP of technology, who started as a programmer trainee writing code in CICS Cobol for Sam's Clubs merchandising systems."

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rkusenet — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:20:22 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote > I knew that Walmart stores use Informix. They are an old customer of > Informix. But I thought that Walmart.com (their online store) > uses Oracle. this one mentions Walmart.com as an oracle customer. http://www.oracle.com/global/nl/database/index.html I wonder how many such customers switch from O to Informix :-)

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Serge Rielau — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:12:44 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Many big customers have any vendor/system under the sun. Cheers Serge

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Neil Truby — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:59:11 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:2ueugaF2a906jU1@uni-berlin.de... > "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote > >> I knew that Walmart stores use Informix. They are an old customer of >> Informix. But I thought that Walmart.com (their online store) >> uses Oracle. > > this one mentions Walmart.com as an oracle customer. > > http://www.oracle.com/global/nl/database/index.html > > I wonder how many such customers switch from O to Informix :-) If it's the same as in Europe FTSE 100 companies are so acquistive that it's likely that you could take *any* mainstream technology and one of their subsiduaries will have it deployed somewhere. Our largest retail client for example is predominantly IDS, but has SQL Server and Oracle systems for some specialist functions. Oh, and they have an AS/400 so no doubt will be registered as a DB2 user as well.