Re: Just Curious

From: Charles Schultz <sacrophyte_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:36:19 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTim6WGvBM91dxQgz_LRJ+GtRmY8w2wf0d_dpDrt6_at_mail.gmail.com>

I would disagree, it is not hard to say at all. =) Oracle is feature-rich and robust, as well as bug-laden and overly complex. Which market do you think that caters to?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 09:30, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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