| Title: | Informix Conference |
| Moderator: | KOLFAX::MCCATHERN |
| Created: | Wed Feb 02 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 221 |
| Total number of notes: | 620 |
Hi,
I have a very big TELECOM company that is implementing its
Dataraewhouse solution, down here Brazil.
They are using MCI Corporative datawarehouse as the main reference
in order to build their solution.
As far as I know MCI is using Informix in this DW project.
Could anyone tell me more details about the MCI Datawarehousing
project ?
My main 2 questions are :
1) What technical and commercial advantages against the
competition (specially Oracle) that made Informix the chosen database
platform ?
2) What hardware platform is being used ? Why they have decided to
use this HW platform ?
Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Leo
Digital Technical Support
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| 219.1 | SX4GTO::OLSON | DBTC Palo Alto | Wed May 28 1997 09:21 | 22 | |
Leo, I don't have full details, but MCI has site-licensed Informix for
use on platforms from four different hardware vendors- on Digital, they
have access to Informix kits on both Digital UNIX and NT Alpha. The
Informix account rep says that a very large percentage of projects
started in the last six months have been on NT Alpha- numbering in the
hundreds. With that backgrounds, your two questions:
> 1) What technical and commercial advantages against the competition
> (specially Oracle) that made Informix the chosen database platform ?
I know what the technical advantages are that I can see, but I don't
know what particular factors over others made MCI choose Informix.
> 2) What hardware platform is being used ? Why they have decided to
> use this HW platform ?
As I mentioned, MCI has given their project teams a high degree of
independence in choosing hardware platforms by getting an Informix site
license on four different vendors. I don't know which are the other
three, if I find out I'll report back here.
DougO
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| 219.2 | VAXRIO::LEO | Wed May 28 1997 17:57 | 15 | ||
Hi Doug,
Thank you very much for your quick answer.
If you could get more details on technical reasons that made MCI
build its solution over Informix database it would be great.
Once more thank you.
Best regards,
Leo
Digital Technical Support
Brazil
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