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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: OT -- MS SQL Server is putting Oracle to shame,
The same statement I use for Unix, I will use for SQL Server.
Give me $40,000 and I will build an NT box, take $40,000 and build a unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX type) and see who wins.
Same thing works for SQL Server and Oracle.
Granted $40,000 is a small budget, but there are a lot of people who would spend about $80,000 for their database in hardware and software, that is a very big market. Oracle and Unix cannot hold that entire market.
And that is probably the only reason SQL Server and NT are alive and
kicking.
They are good products if used for the right job. Once you try to do much,
then you find the advantages of Oracle and Unix.
Although any day of the week I would rather have a $1,000,000 unix box running Oracle. But I cannot with a straight face tell 15 person company selling Beanie babies on Ebay to buy that setup.
Nothing is perfect for every solution, and Oracle is far from it, and SQL Server is even further. While Oracle's costs are high, and Unix hardware stays well above the intel market (which is going to change greatly with the I64) there will be a large market share that Oracle will have a tough time competing in.
Although Win2000 has many bugs and compatibility issues, it is pretty solid with the right hardware and properly tested software.
For a anti-m$/anti-win32 this is a tough email to write, but I believe it in
its entirety.
Blanket policy M$, SQL Server, Win32 sucks, period end of story is just
being naive.
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
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Patrice,
Thanks for the message, we all over here had one heck of a good laugh. It just shows that MS is still running around with there heads in the ground and phony sales figures. Bet you did not know that every one who buys Windows Server gets a SQL*server license right along with it. It's a built in. And we're looking at migrating from Windows as our network server to Red Hat along with some others I know, and a couple of VERY big players who have. Why, because it's cheaper to run Red Hat than Windows in both terms of hardware and software. Sure we'll keep Windows on the desk top, but it's likely out of here in the computer room.
BTW: since MS has been declared a monopoly, and that portion of the anti-trust suit has been affirmed, a break up of MS is still in the cards so some of those statements about not porting may have to be retracted. OH also, watch out when someone, even Oracle, starts throwing bench marks around, they all lie.
Dick Goulet
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Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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