Re: Oracle vs. Microsoft in analysis languages

My business problems are reporting, OLAP, data mining, where OLAP is the most critical because we already have operational reporting in place, it's not going to change too soon, data mining is yet to prove its use, OLAP is the area where we can make a big progress.

Oracle is our Enterprise standard, so the transaction db can't be changed. I am thinking about adopting MSFT's BI capabilities for its relative low price and good functions.
I am asking the camparison of BI languages between Oracle and MSFT, it's not very sepcific to any business problem, but the understanding is
useful in evaluating and learning them.

As for the Java part, I have just figured out a solution of combining MQ series plus Java language plus Oracle stored procedure, saving the cost of Oracle Procedure Gateway to MQ. In the process, I have noticed the different Java strategy applied by Oracle and Microsoft. Received on Mon Dec 19 2005 - 22:40:03 CST