RE: Oracle V Informix

Posted in 2003

Dirk Moolman — Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:04:50 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Morgan [mailto:damorgan@x.washington.edu] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:05 PM [snip] >Glad you put that emoticon after your comment. What we need is more >rationality ... less >emotional jingoism. Informix developers and DBAs, over the next 5-7 >years are basically >going to move in one of two directions ... Oracle or DB2. What - and not to Arrowhead ? ..... or whatever the new DB will be called ? [snip] sending to informix-list

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Obnoxio The Clown — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:13:55 +0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Dirk Moolman wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Morgan [mailto:damorgan@x.washington.edu] > Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:05 PM > > [snip] > >>Glad you put that emoticon after your comment. What we need is more >>rationality ... less >>emotional jingoism. Informix developers and DBAs, over the next 5-7 >>years are basically >>going to move in one of two directions ... Oracle or DB2. > > > What - and not to Arrowhead ? ..... or whatever the new DB will be > called ? I wouldn't want to be accused of provoking an unnecessary flame war, but I don't think the DB2 code base is capable of being merged with anything else. So Blue Arrowhead will be DB2 with a load of Informix features built in. It won't be anything like IDS. -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"