[lug] OT: Enterprise DB Migration

[Nate Duehr]

Informix really isn't that bad an RDBMS either, you may consider it.
I'm pretty sure they had a Linux port -- of course, the recent purchase
of Informix by IBM leads one to believe that it will die a slow death to
help DB2 along, but you never know.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:26:07AM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
> Hopefully some of my friends here at BLUG can be of assistance with some
> info. I'm looking for anyone who has migrated or attempted to migrate
> their business to Oracle and would be willing to give me a few minutes
> of their time.
> 
> Our business currently runs a legacy database (UniVerse) on HP-UX with a
> TUI application for internal users and a Visual Basic application served
> over Citrix for our clients. We will deploy a web-based application
> common to both our internal users and clients. We have formed a team to
> evaluate "the big three" (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL) and migrate our
> architecture to whichever one we pick. I have volunteered to research
> Oracle so am looking for people that have done this before to interview. 
> 
> I strongly feel that UNIX is the way to go for this application (highly
> available and high performance) but it seems like sort of an uphill
> battle against how cheap MS SQL is and the propaganda that the MS folks
> give when here. They say that 2000 is the most fastest, most stable,
> best smelling OS ever and SQL is a DB to match.
> 
> I appreciate any comments or information offered.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Kyle Moore
> UNIX SysAdmin
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