Re: db's war

Hi, I'm also very interested in other peoples thoughts and reactions to this. We've been hit twofold, we run on SCO which Caldera has now taken over and also use Informix which IBM have acquired, whom I'm sure will try to make us move to DB2 at some point. The other trouble we have is a lot of our programs are written in Informix 4GL and so will be a pain to convert. I would have liked to of had a DB independent 4GL but this was already in place before I got here. The only real other choice like you say is Oracle but I've always heard bad things regarding pricing where they are concerned. They had a special offer on for anyone who jumped over two them quickly but I like to 'look before you leap' :) We plan to start looking at possible alternative's before we're forced to change and so would be glad to hear from anyone else who is in the same boat so to speak. Best Regards, - Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sommai Fongnamthip" <sommai@thaithanakit.co.th> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:36 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] db's war > hi > I'd like to survey php commnunity about how do you think about merge > between informix and ibm? Did there remain only 2 major dbms (oracle and > db2)? do you think MySQL will be the leader with next version 4? > > SF > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >