RE: Oracle Future???

From: Kimberly Smith <ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 07:54:47 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003EB007.20020109070539@fatcity.com>

The DBA Enterprise team at my company actually did a review of DB2 and Oracle. This was back in the days of Oracle 8. Some of the features that Oracle came out behind in are now there in 8i but they got quite similar results in performance and all that fun stuff. But that was running some extra feature of the DB2 software that really jacks up the price. That made it more in line with Oracle's pricing. (Don't remember the details so don't ask) And I cannot post the report...

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Bronfin
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

i have a 1TB Oracle DB running on Win2K. That customer previously used MS SQL server , until the DB grew up to some 350GB and then ..... the company i used to work for earned some good bucks on MS SQL server to Oracle conversion and i got some moderate MS SQL server knowledge.
Nice toy.

Seriously , i think small companies will increasingly use the ( MS SQL server + Windows ) tandem or the (Linux + MySQL or PostgresSQL) combinations , kicking Oracle off the small companies market.

This , along with the DB2 agression in the big enterprises market , makes me seeing Oracle's future not so bright , unfortunately.

Regarding UNIX vs NT : i believe the real battle is going to be UNIX vs Linux , even UNIX server vs Linux cluster. Think of it : a linux cluster of some 30 servers gives U muche better performance and HA solution than a serious SUN , HP or AIX machine for MUCH LESS money !

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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Someone on this list posted a message saying they were running a db with 320G of disks on Windows2000...

Patrice Boivin

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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hmm, strange this one. This is like the age old NT and UNIX argument.

Many years ago now I was working on UNIX and Ingres

Progressed to UNIX, Ingres,Oracle and DB26000 (wow !! a blast from the past). At about this time I heard that NT was to push UNIX out into the wilderness and UNIX would become obsolete.

Ingres fell by the wayside after the CA takeover and DB26000 went the same way and I was left with UNIX and Oracle.

I then moved to Unix, Oracle and Informix.

Informix dropped away rapidly - so here I am sitting with UNIX and Oracle almost 10 years from the day that I was told that UNIX would be obsolete.

Absolute hogwash in my opinion.

Our company also uses MySQL and SQLServer. I will probably get around to mucking about with both but don't expect them to push Oracle away. I'm with Mark the only main threat I've heard is DB2. (and not the crap thing that was DB26000 a while ago unless I'm mistaken).

Cheers

Lee

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