Re: PostgresSQL vs. Informix

[Trent Shipley <trent_shipley(at)qwest(dot)net>]

In answering the question, it might help to have information on two background 
items.

The first item is the politics of the situation.  I gather from Chad Hendren's 
post that an individual in the top-8-OEM-customer enterprise is advocating 
for Postgresql.  

The second item is the existing technical situation.  What is unsatisfactory 
about Informix at this time?  What is mission critical about Informix's 
performance that Postgresql will have to meet?  (Postgresql has yet to 
conquer the computer cluster/grid arena and this frustrates many would-be 
power users.)  Does the customer have mission critical applications that are 
closely coupled or dependent on Informix features or disfeatures?

On Wednesday 2007-11-28 08:32, Chad Hendren wrote:
> PostgreSQL Team,
>
> I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide) that is
> considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their primary product
> instead of Informix.  He is trying to build his case for this change.
> Do we have anything that I can forward to him (something like the
> presentation you did at CEC?) to help him build his case?
>
> This is an urgent request from my customer given that his timeline is
> relatively short.  Any help you can give me will be very appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chad Hendren
>
> Original question:
>
> Have you seen any studies (either by Sun or others) that compares
> PostgresSQL to other commercial database software (Informix, Oracle,
> Sybase,etc.)? I am interested seeing a feature by feature comparison of
> PostgresSQL and Informix.