Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company:IThought Informix was Dead?
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From: Ian Michael Gumby - view profile
Date: Sat, Dec 9 2006 3:01 am
Email: "Ian Michael Gumby"



>So I've been doing Oracle for almost 20 years now and I've been
>assigned to learn Informix IDS so I can become a backup Informix DBA. I
>thought when IBM acquired Informix they would kill it and move
>everybody to UDB (DB2 for non-mainframe). So what is happenning to the
>future of Informix?



Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset
before Informix was. ;-)

The interesting thing is the architecture of the engine. (Something you
don't see.)


Informix's future is bright. And getting brighter.


I don't know if you saw the analysts warn off on Oracle because of slow
RDBMS growth....



>BTW, it seems like a pretty good database. Kinda of a cross between
>Sybase and Oracle.


Actually no.
Both Sybase and Oracle pale in comparison. That's not to say that Informix
is *perfect* (It still has its warts...) But it is better designed than
Oracle and while Sybase had offered some similar features with their
adaptive server technology, they created some performance issues which meant
that your developers had to be careful else they'd kill performance.


>Help me understand.


Ok,
The one really weird thing about Oracle is that while you have an instance,
you treat each database as a user. With Informix, they are called
databases. Users are authenticated against the OS.

Also PL/SQL has some strange notions on syntax....


But trust me, you'll love Informix once you get the hang of it.


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Subject changed: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request ofCompany:IThought Informix was Dead?
From: Captain Pedantic - view profile
Date: Sat, Dec 9 2006 11:41 am
Email: "Captain Pedantic"


"Ian Michael Gumby" wrote in message
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> Well, Janet P. did try her best to kill it, but in the end, she was sunset
> before Informix was. ;-)


When did "sunset" become a transitive verb? Or in fact a verb of any kind?

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