Re: PostgresSQL vs. Informix

On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:32 AM, 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.
>
You should speak with Josh Berkus (http://www.ittoolbox.com/profiles/
josh_berkus) and Jignesh Shah (http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/), both
also work for Sun.  Josh has been a core Postgres team member for
years now and heads up the community relations stuff and Jignesh has
been heading up lots of Postgres benchmarking on Solaris.

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