RE: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise li mitations in general - OT

From: Nick Tilbury _at_ Northampton <_at_>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:32:59 -0000
Message-ID: <152194D388911C4B8D6368EC6511B9F602E819BA@nthex55.eng.vartec.com>

Totally agree with this statement from Dick. Without wishing to hi-jack this thread,
I can foresee a time when Oracle will ONLY be used for 'business-critical-production-databases' and everything else will be on A.N.OTHER platform. We are already in the process of evaluating Oracle-alternatives. When this is complete it'll be a case of looking at each DB and seeing if we can move it from Oracle.

Nick
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: 23 November 2004 15:38
To: ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise limitations in general - OT

  doubt that Oracle lowered the price on it's RDBMS for mid to small sized shops simply because of SQL*Server. Face it an open source system of PostGreSQL or MySql is cheaper than SQL*Server. No Oracle's Platinum price is too expensive for a lot of people, which is why they cut the price tag. Problem is that they didn't cut it enough.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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From: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net [mailto:ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net]=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:56 AM To: lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl; VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com; 'ORACLE-L' Cc: Lex de Haan
Subject: RE: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise limitations in general - OT

There appear to be some very large OLTPs running sql server. Someone posted a link to a list of the largest databases in the world and several of them run on SQL Server. I have not used it, but I have been told it improved alot in the last two years. This might explain why oracle is lowering the prices for small to mid-level shops that threaten to go to sql server...=20

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