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- From: sethg@dcatlas.dot.gov (Seth Grimes)
- Subject: Re: Informix vs. Oracle
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.114556.23229@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Keywords: informix oracle database rdbms
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug26.231313.28687@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:45:56 GMT
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- mathews@bones.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew J Mathews) writes:
-
- >My boss was recently told by a salesman that Informix would soon be the new
- >RDBMS standard on top of Oracle. Needless to say, she asked me to investigate.
- >I have not been able to find very much written on Informix. Could anyone
- >give me their 2 cents, and/or point me to a good source of info?
-
- I say this is a typical salesperson BS. Oracle is out in the lead by far,
- especially because Informix has ignored or abandoned important market
- sectors like VAX/VMS. Informix is a Unix DBMS; Oracle is on loads of
- platforms. Oracle is integrating their DBMS with lots of applications;
- does Informix sell anything but the DBMS. And lastly, Oracle has a great
- marketing department, although their hype caught up with them last summer
- when some of their accounting practices like premature recording of sales
- and penchant for vaporware became exposed. How else could such a mediocre
- product have captured so much of the market?
-
- If the salesperson meant that Informix would overtake Oracle as a technical
- standard, well, Oracle never was a technical leader, except in their ability
- to get their product to run on a spectrum of platforms, and it's not gaining
- on competitors like Ingres and Sybase technically, either.
-
- Seth Grimes, dcatlas!sethg@uunet.uu.net
- Automated Sciences Group (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
-