RE: RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

Dick, I resent the statement that we are prejudiced just because we've invested a lot of effort, time and money into our oracle careers. We would advise the guy to go with oracle simply because oracle is the best RDBMS software that has ever been and shall ever be. Did I mention that oracle is bug free (but replete with features)?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re:RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE
>
>
> Cute, but probably in the near future unless MicroSlop and/or
> IBM beats them to
> the punch.
>
> Anyway, that is a loaded question to toss into this pile of prejudiced
> individuals, and yes I'm speaking about myself here too.
> Personally I'd stay
> with Oracle just because of the condition (financially that
> is) of Sybase. It
> may not be too far into the future when they are acquired by
> someone else.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: "Gary Weber" <gweber_at_charlesjones.com>
> Date: 9/24/2001 12:06 PM
>
> Isn't Sybase owned by Oracle? Oh, not yet?
>
> Gary Weber
> Senior DBA
> Charles Jones, LLC
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> -----Original Message-----
> Miriam
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:54 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi list, hope you guys can help us decide this issue.
>
> We are a shop that 's currently running 2 MS SQL7 servers
> 2 MS 2k Servers
> 6 Sybase
> 12.1.1 ASE servers
> and 5 Oracle 8.1.7.1
> servers
> The MS servers is used for time tracking and a helpdesk
> database, Sybase is
> used for our Online communities and a host of other things. Because of
> Sybase's limitation and problems 3 years ago, Oracle was
> supposed to be our
> New Production System. The idea was to migrate all other
> system to Oracle
> and have a shop running under just one platform. Well, this
> was over 3 years
> ago and things have not progressed as expected(very long
> story), We are
> still running all three platforms. Sybase has come up with
> new releases that
> have addressed some of the issues we had against it , now we
> don't know
> which platform to keep(between Oracle and Sybase). In your
> opinion, which
> one is more robust, better? we need replication and resource
> management.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Miriam Bryan
>
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