Re: current informix white papers ?

Thanks for the explanation Fernando. I am fighting some heavily entrenched
notions that I don't quite understand yet. Our CTO read the IDC report and
somehow gleaned from that, that Informix doesn't suit our heavy OTLP batch
and web online environment as well as Oracle. I'm still trying to pin
their thinking down on that one, because I read the opposite in it.





----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: current informix white papers ?
Date: Fri, February 29, 2008 10:56
From: "Fernando Nunes" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Floyd Wellershaus wrote:
As for the original post, this reminds me another flame a while
ago... If
someone is interested in moving to Oracle because of HA, someone should
really
find out what is really motivating them... Pay more and suffer a
migration to
gain nothing that eases their pain... sounds completely wrong...
<<

I assure you I am not flaming or trolling. I really think the main
push to
consider Oracle has more to do with our Developement team crying for it
for years. There are lots of tools to make a developers job easier it
seems, and getting developers that know Oracle is supposedly easier.


I believe you... And what you're saying matches my thoughts... It's not
because
of HA...

Believe me, I am trying my best to fight them on this. I am not
interested
in dealing with a harder to maintain database that doesn't handle our
load
as well. Proving it to the management is another issue though.


Sure. And the references that you were given may help with the HA
reasoning,
but will they be useful regarding your development team worries?
Probably not

If we do go to Oracle, it would probably be with RAC plus DataGuard,
which
I think will cover most if not all of the same areas that Informix HA
stuff does, and I guess I can look at it as that I'll be learning a new
gig and getting more marketable.

Which is understandable...


I'm amazed at the controversy my little question sparked, and am reading
it all hoping to take in something of value. Your apparent thought
that my
initial post was some sort flame is not something I expected however.

I didn't explain myself clearly... I didn't mean your question was a
flame. If
I made that impression I'm sorry. I tried to say, that this question
reminds me
a recent thread that turn into a flame...
As for your hopes of reading something of value, you'll be better served
with
the white papers... My experience tells me that any discussion with DA
Morgan
turns into useless crap... He will probably try to "sell" Oracle RAC,
and if it
fails he will try to "sell himself" as he does even in the Oracle groups...

If he chooses to show the Oracle RAC features you may gain something,
but if he
goes the other way (show Informix lack of features) it will be awful,
because
his knowledge of the product is inexistent (although the time he spends
here
could have help him to gain some knowledge) and his ability to search
information about it is very weak...

Any way, my point is apparently valid... The reasons apparently are not
very HA
specific... So after educating yourself on Oracle/Informix HA features
you may
want to find out what are the problems your development team find in
Informix... And then, as always, there will be people here trying to
help you
(and/or them). Even if we fail, at least we'll learn more about developers
concerns regarding Informix. This is also helpful, both to IBM and to their
Informix customers and as such is good for this group.

Regards,



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Portugal

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