Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

At 12:04 PM 4/2/2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

>Informix fees vary but figure about $33,000 per CPU for a web environment
>(other licenses are cheaper, for instance, a server with only a handful of
>connections). On the plus side for Informix, the Oracle stuff we had
>consists of dozens of tapes and CDs ... Informix was rarely more a CD and
>much easier to get going.

And, IMHO, Informix *much* easier to maintain.

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