People put warehouses on SQL Server?? >>shudder<<

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From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Nurk
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:27 PM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Re: Informix Job Posting - UK Only


"Sebastian, Norma J." <NormaJean.Sebastian@tellabs.com> wrote in message
news:1102608627.eea7b2ec593a2b9a55403c4721f77aba@t eranews...
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> The only reason we still have a SAP oracle instance is because we
> don't resources to make the jump to informix. Our main SAP database
> is informix, and boss agrees moving from oracle to informix makes
> plenty of sense.... money-wise, and DBA-wise.
> I will keep pushing...
>
> (so hey... any ibm'ers looking to volunteer for this?...)
>
> Considering it takes more oracle people to do the job, off-shoring
> makes sense... 2 for the price of 1?...
>
> Both oracle and ibm should pay attention to microsoft....sqlserver is
> pretty impressive, the only thing holding it back is it's operating
> system.
Not really, same warehouse on DB2 UDB on AIX was slower than SQLSErver
>
> NJ
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Data Goob
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:43 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Off Topic: Re: Informix Job Posting - UK Only
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> Are there any big customer wins for Informix?
>
> Still haven't heard anything! Are there any new customers worth
> mentioning?
>
> By the way I heard the buzz on the floor at the Oracle conference this

> week was that most of the people attending were from India.
> Probably will be more beneficial next conference to just host it in
> India to help all those companies doing the outsourcing save even more

> money by not having it in one of the most expensive towns on the
> planet, San Francisco.
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