It is with the deepest sincerity that I agree with Obnoxio... Brand
awareness is life. If INFORMIX had the reputation of Oracle, I stand a
5 times better chance of re-employment after my current job ends.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]
On Behalf Of Obnoxio The Clown
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:10 AM
To: rollforward@rollforward.com
Cc: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Informix 10 vs Oracle 10g

RollForward Wizard said:
>
> This is awesome work. I think it touches on some very salient points,
> especially regarding virtual processors and threading. It is amazing
> that Oracle technology could have gone so wrong despite the amount of
> money they have as a company, and how they could not come up with a
> better engine--or why haven't they dumped the current engine and made
a
> new one that is actually better than any other product. Simply
amazing.
> All that money and they can't find anyone to make their technology
better
> than it is. They must have their priorities wrong, spending so much
money
> on sales and marketing. :-)
>
> RE: http://www.IIUG.org/resources/articl...sOracle10g.pdf

You're pushing on an open door, trust me. I don't think there's a single
person who uses Informix who doesn't wish that Informix and IBM were as
effective at creating brand awareness for Informix as Oracle is.

And then you'll find plenty of people who say Oracle don't spend ENOUGH
on
sales and marketing.

--
Bye now,
Obnoxio

"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ` dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
- Coluche

did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all
columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this
has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child
record
and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the
parent
table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila,
relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit
controversial among modellers.

--r937, dbforums.com
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