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From: dbmoore@oracle.uucp (Dennis Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Unscrupulous posting
Summary: Informix has a few bugs too, I've heard
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.164302.21543@oracle.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 16:43:02 GMT
References: <734@keele.keele.ac.uk> <5550@avocado20.UUCP> <1990Dec4.215711.2508@oracle.com> <1990Dec7.023519.9020@informix.com>
Reply-To: dbmoore@oracle.UUCP (Dennis Moore)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
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*** I work for Oracle.  Informix is occasionally a competitor of ours ***

In article <1990Dec7.023519.9020@informix.com> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
>In article <1990Dec4.215711.2508@oracle.com> kbittner@oracle.UUCP (Kurt Bittner) writes:
>>
>>The version is *highly* relevant, since
>>SQL*Forms v3 is FAR superior to SQL*Forms v2.  Enough flames on this one....

[Kurt's stuff deleted]

[Randall's stuff deleted]

>
>>In general, the net is a great forum for sharing experiences and ideas.  Many
>>times however, opinions are stated as facts, without explaining how you
>>reached that conclusion.  
>
>Hopefully, I've stated how I reached my conclusions.  
>
>-- 
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>Randall Rhea                                          Informix Software, Inc. 
>Senior Programmer/Analyst, MIS                    uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall

Gee, I bet Randall is very objective.  I personally used Informix for two
years, worked at Ingres for a year and a half, and now work at Oracle.  In my
NSOO [not so objective opinion ;-)], Oracle is the best of the three products.
And my opinion is worth just as much as Randall's to any customer hoping to
make a decision on a development strategy for the future.  Zilch.

I won't say that any one product is the best for all environments,
organizations, or applications;  that would be like saying "I have such a great
hammer -- it can do anything better than any other tool in anyone's toolchest."
Any customer looking to make a decision about purchasing a product must make
up their own minds, hopefully by reading objective analysts, trying out the
various products, determining meaningful benchmarking activities (TP1 does
not represent the majority of MIS applications!), looking at all the costs
involved in implementing a decision, and selecting appropriate evaluation
criteria.  It's a tough decision, and one in which a mistake can be very
costly, but careful selection will result in a good match between the customer
and the vendor, with benefits on both sides.

Of course, I believe that the vast majority of people who go through such a
process will choose Oracle.

-- Dennis Moore, my own opinions, etcetcetc