Re: Best Hardware/Database Combo

graeme@pyramid.com (Graeme Sargent) wrote: >DBA Resources (dbaresrc@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: >: M. Livenspargar (michaell@sonic.net) wrote: >: >The Hardware choices: HP-9000 and RS/6000 > >: >The Database choices: Informix, Sybase, Oracle > >: Not having extensive financial resources myself, I tend to look at what the >: big "wins" are what combination of products these companies are using. All >: three DB vendors will continue to win accounts but the momentum is swinging >: to Informix 'cause it just plain *works* and has the architecture to continue >: blowing the doors off Sybase and Oracle. > >: As far as hardware is concerned, again I go to the big wins and HP is taking >: them all. > >That's odd! Where do our big wins appear from then? > >We only ever lose a race to HP when the customer either can't afford, or >doesn't need to buy the best. > >Unfortunately, they get to start a lot more races than we do. > >Like the one above. > >They say they want the best. But they don't bother to evaluate the >best. > I'm sorry if the title of my post was misleading - it should have more completely read "Best Hardware/Database Combo Given the Following Choices" (see earlier followup "not all decisions are technical"). In the end, however, we'll probably go out to bid. A competitive price/performance bid will certainly be evaluated. M. Livenspargar