Re: Just Curious

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:30:21 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTinrBFKxq7ad8iRRda6fWBgwVCiNQ5ZH+TQWwFe9_at_mail.gmail.com>

Thats hard to say, but they are definitely pricing themselves rather high if they intend to compete in the small to mid-size market.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Curious question. I have attended two Oracle events recently promoting
> Exadata. These are high performance, expensive systems.
>
> At the same time we have purchased applications requiring small to
> mid-sized databases. All are written for SQL Server only.
>
> We only have one data warehouse. We have hundreds of other applications.
> Is Oracle giving up on the small to mid-size database space? They sure
> aren't talking about it in their marketing events and I am not seeing apps
> come in the door written to be either database agnostic or written for
> Oracle.
>
>
> Pete Barnett
> Database Technologies Lead
> Regence
>
>
>
>
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