Re: Oracle vs DB2 - SAP.
From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:34:49 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sYkb0ec6O-5VCrDcQMbsi4E6vSYv-08pAmF8+uNj5g8-w_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Johnson, William L (TEIS) <WLJohnson_at_te.com>wrote:
> IBM seems to have a pretty good story based on TCO, fewer patches than
> Oracle and performance. Is anyone else tired of applying critical PSUs to
> their environments every 3 months?
>
>
Absolutely. It's just awful and worse than either IBM or Microsoft. Then there's the whole continually patch "engineered systems" thing that seems to be happening to those who have bought Oracle hardware which are marketed as plug and forget systems, one of them even has the name appliance.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:34:49 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sYkb0ec6O-5VCrDcQMbsi4E6vSYv-08pAmF8+uNj5g8-w_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Johnson, William L (TEIS) <WLJohnson_at_te.com>wrote:
> IBM seems to have a pretty good story based on TCO, fewer patches than
> Oracle and performance. Is anyone else tired of applying critical PSUs to
> their environments every 3 months?
>
>
Absolutely. It's just awful and worse than either IBM or Microsoft. Then there's the whole continually patch "engineered systems" thing that seems to be happening to those who have bought Oracle hardware which are marketed as plug and forget systems, one of them even has the name appliance.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Fri Jun 08 2012 - 09:34:49 CDT