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Subject: Re: Informix User's Group
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 13:39:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 13:39:55 1987
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> 
>    Here's the Feb 87 version of the Informix User's Group Membership List.
> As usual, I have sent a mail test to each member of the group. If you
> see yourself on this posting, but did not get the test, send me mail at
> the signature block at the bottom, or return path at the top.
> 
> All path names are relative to my station, so intercept them where
> you can. (You can always work out a path to my station, and back
> out to an individual eliminating "retracing").
> 
> For anyone wishing to join the group:
>    It's an informal group. My only involvement in it is to collect a
> list of people who use Informix so we know who we can ask for help
> if we run across problems. This will keep postings on the net down
> since we can mail one another directly. If you wish to join, send me
> mail, and I'll get your name on the list.
> 
> Now for some general comments:
> 
> Dan Flak: My company is considering a switch from 3.30 to SQL. I have already 
> seen one bad review. Any comments?
> 
> Gunnar Stefansson: Has anyone tried Informix on an IBM/PC? Can someone
> who has tried this tell us whether the product is too heavy on the machine
> to be useful? Comparisons with other products would be of interest.
> 
> (What about Gunnar's question? - Dave Barker, Lars Hammarstrand, Stu Heiss,
> Per Ericson, Stan Voket? - Dan)
> 
> And now the list:



	Gunnar,
	(Informix Users)

	I have, and still use, INFORMIX on my PC/XT at home. I have no
    complaints at all about the speed of the product. My PC/XT is a
    high speed 8 MHz machine and I always use the high speed when using
    INFORMIX. Also, I might note that I use a 30 meg hard disk with INFORMIX.
    I don't really beleive that one could use INFORMIX on a floppy drive
    system.

	As far as other DBMS products, I have not used any other product
    on my PC/XT as much as I have INFORMIX. Since we use INFORMIX at work
    and I have INFORMIX at home, any requirement I have for a database
    I find myself using INFORMIX, which I feel is a very mature and complete
    development product. An associate of mine does a lot of commercial
    programming in DBASE II with which he is very familiar. He is also an
    avid user of INFORMIX at work. He prefers INFORMIX to DBASE II, but
    it is not available on his clients systems.  Although we have not ran
    any kind of benchmark on either product, we have heard that DBASE II 
    or III runs fairly slow on the PC because they interpret text files.
    As far as being a complete development system DBASE III+ may be
    somewhat more comparable to the INFORMIX product.

	If some benchmark results are of interest, I might be persuaded
    to provide some on the INFORMIX PC (ie: dbbuild,keyed query,etc).


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