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- From: donb@pdx.csd.mot.com (Don Bolton)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Informix vs. Oracle
- Message-ID: <1302@pdxvme.pdx.csd.mot.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:07:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pdxvme.1302
- References: <1992Aug26.231313.28687@risky.ecs.umass.edu> <1992Aug27.123031.6373@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Aug27.224948.22327@risky.ecs.umass.edu>
- Reply-To: donb@pdx.csd.mot.com (Don Bolton)
- Followup-To: comp.databases
- Organization: Parallel Technology Solutions Inc
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- In article <1992Aug27.224948.22327@risky.ecs.umass.edu> mathews@bones.ecs.umass.edu (Mathew J Mathews) writes:
- >Thanks for all the replies and postings.
- >
- >I have compiled a list of the comments mailed to me, if anyone is interested
- >I can post it. The replies were mostly in favor of Oracle. Actually,
- >he score is about --
- >
- > Oracle: A gazillion
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- BUGS? Thats a conservitave estimate.
-
- > Informix: 1
-
- Because Orifice is ported to a multitude of platforms and Informix is limited
- to DOS/Unix there is a FAR wider business audience (along with the suit-n-tie
- "image" marketing approach Orifice has used)
-
- I have done extensive work in both RDBMS systems, and my opinion is that
- Oracle is a great product for people that like to wear suits and ties,
- draw flow charts, use buzzwords, have a *long* project developement cycle,
- and maintain an extensive DP staff to meet the reporting needs.) if you
- need to actually get something *done* use Informix.
-
- UNLESS Oracle has changed DRASTICLY in the past 6 months, its an overcomplex
- menagerie of dis-associated products..
-
- Their forms package does NOT communicate to their report writing package
- Their "procedural" SQL cannot be used for OUTPUT, only program variables
- or TABLE data.
-
- Outwardly, that "simple, ez to use, etc" forms package looks *slick*
- now try a *real* task with it and spend a lifetime debugging your
- triggers. And oh yeah you'll need a *seperate* set of screens to
- drive those reports.
-
- Orifice controls a lot of things for the developer transparently which
- seems neat until you realize what its doing is absolutely bass-ack-
- wards to what you need to do. (conditional depending..)
-
- Orifice *does* have a *superb* set of extensions to their SQL
- implementation, a lot of reporting can be run from straight sql
- scripts, but if you need something procedural in nature your
- hosed without doing a bunch of temp tables first and then doing
- reporting.
-
- Informix, to the Oracle bigot, seems crude, but in reality is a far easier
- environment in which to get *real* tasks done, can be written to do nearly
- anything concievable (4gl) by anyone who has ever used any kind of a programming
- language. Thats not to say one couldn't do a lot in Orifice too, but,,,, its
- sold as an environment requiring *less* technical people and in reality thats
- just not true.
-
- When the layoff came from my last employer I resolved myself to find Informix
- work and NOT Oracle, yet Oracle was what I first learned on and certainly
- offered more work oppurtunities.
-
- These opinions are mine although I have found them to be shared by many deve-
- lopers who have worked with both products. They do not nessicarily represent
- the opinions of my company.
-
-
- Don "Oracle. just say NO" Bolton
-