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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

1093.0. "Help on INFORMIX/VMS site" by KAZAN::CRAYE (Jean Michel Craye EIS-Paris Diderot) Fri Feb 21 1992 11:30

    For a very large VAX/VMS customer (VAX6000 + 5GO of DB)
    i am looking for strong competency on INFORMIX/VMS and or
    pointer to knowledgeable people.
    I is critical for him otherwise he will consider going to a 
    UNIX (DEC or NOT DEC) version of informix .
    This guru will be helpfull to "tune" informix 2.10 Engine
    and to help diagnosis problems.
    
    Thanks by advance
    Jean-michel CRAYE
    EIS PARIS
    
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1093.1Don't understand the questionCOOKIE::BERENSONLex mala, lex nullaFri Feb 21 1992 17:3815
I don't understand your request.  Are you asking for help converting
someone from Informix/VMS to Rdb/VMS or asking help a customer who wants
to go TO Informix/VMS?  Or???

Informix discontinued their VMS product some four years ago because they
thought Rdb/VMS was better.  They originally planned to port their tools
to work with Rdb/VMS, but those plans were cut back when Informix ran
into financial trouble and they decided to concentrate on the Unix
market.  Informix-OnLine consistently posts the best TPC benchmark
results of any database vendor, on all hardware vendor's boxes.  The
Informix people, assuming they are the same ones I dealt with a few
years ago, are a pleasure to work with (much better than Ingres, Oracle,
etc.)

Hal
1093.2VMS is going..goingMRKTNG::SILVERBERGMark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3Sat Feb 22 1992 17:075
    .1 is correct...Informix has pulled their support for the VAX/VMS
    line.  They are shifting investments to provide more support for
    UNIX platforms.
    Mark