Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

From: Pablo Sanchez <news_reader_at_mew.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 1997/06/02
Message-ID: <5mum6v$2ar@mew.corp.sgi.com>#1/1

In article <01bc6e57$5fdd9ae0$618285ce_at_ian>, "Ian Sparkes" <sparkes_at_sprintmail.com> writes:
> I would also be interested in hearing why you feel Informix is a better
> choice for a large data warehouse.
>
> The major differentiation between Oracle and Informix is normally the
> available tools. Specifically, Informix has nothing like Designer/2000 and
> having a powerful tool to manage schemas is real critical in a large
> warehouse.
>

At the risk of sounding boring, I'd have to agree with Ian. If this shop is already Oracle, why incur the cost of retooling people to learn another RDBMS. I see Ian's point that for all intents and purposes an RDBMS is an RDBMS is an RDBMS.

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