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RE: Informix, was it that?

Posted By: Roger Xu
Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2005, at 5:33 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Informix, was it that? (kh-mueller@uni.de)

We migrated to Oracle in the end of 2003 and it went great.
Basically, we exported the 1000 GB database to flat files
using SAP utility R3load and imported into a newly created
Oracle database. The size of the database became 650 GB
thanks to VARCHAR.

--"ex"-informixer

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of kh-mueller@uni.de
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:01 PM
To: sapmix@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Informix, was it that? [457]


Sebastian, .... writes:
>
> Yes, it is true, or seems so at this point in time.
>
>
>>>In April 2005. By that time, DB2 UDB should be the obvious choice ...
>
> It's not obvious unless it's free and comes with free training and
> hand-holding from IBM and SAP. Those of us supporting
> Oracle/SQLServer/Informix, or any combination of those....... (did you
> see DB2 UDB on that list)...

I was looking at sapdba, but it seems not to be fully supported.

>
> Is there anyone on this mailing group that supports DB2 UDB?.... If so,
> what's your opinion? If we are forced to move, why should we go to DB2?

Full ack.

>
>
>>>To support this critical change, IBM is offering very attractive terms
> ..
>
> Hopefully those "attractive terms" mean it is FREE. We all know
> nothing is free, while there might not be any extra charge to go that
> route, it does not include the amount of customer effort needed to make
> the change. And if forced to make a change.... DB2 is just a database
> like the others....

Full ack. again! But whatever you do, it wan't be FREE. "Attractive terms"
will mean, that you get some discount when you buy DB2, and that's why it
"should be the obvious choice". Lets see how "obvious"...

..
> The reason - not to deliver Netweaver 05 ( and therefore all
> applications running on top of this ) on Informix - is a political
> decision made by senior management of IBM and SAP.

Why are all the things political today... ;-)

> Apart from this
> Informix version 9.40 had some limitations and missing features (main
> one are problems with unicode and java ) which prohibit the port to
> Netweaver 05. (Perhabs next version of Informix DB (= 10.0) will not
> have these limitions any more but this is meaningless now)

He/She really said "meaningless"? Sad end.

Maybe there are some "ex"-informixer out there, still reading this list, who
can tell us their experiences and give recommandations for the migration?

Rgs.
Müller

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• Re: Informix, was it that?
  kh-mueller@uni.de -- Tuesday, 22 February 2005, at 5:33 p.m.

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