Re: informix market share

From: RollForward Wizard <rollforward_at_rollforward.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:18:23 -0500
Message-ID: <jmLif.625$%7.132@fe68.usenetserver.com>

DA Morgan wrote:
> RollForward Wizard wrote:
>

>> You should check out DB2 features first before going to Oracle, and 
>> especially DB2 HADR, a chimpanzee can set it up it's so simple.

>
> And apparently some do. But given Oracle's can be set up with not much
> more than a few mouse clicks how much simpler is it?
>

It's not just a few mouse clicks it's also the licensing scheme(s) that are drastically different between Oracle and IBM, they are very very different pricing and licensing models. As a customer you owe it to yourself to at least see what the difference is.

> Or are you making a vague reference to a neolithic version of Oracle
> long out of support?

I'm not making any reference to Oracle other than if someone so chooses to use it, then so be it. But they really need to understand what they are getting themselves into. Received on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 16:18:23 CST