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Frédéric BROUARD wrote in message <3731696B.273E4D36_at_simog.com>...
>1 - Oracle runs on more plateforms than Microsoft SQL Server
Who cares? NT is the platform of choice for the lowest operating cost.
>2 - SQL statement in Oracle are closest to standard than SQL server
Only partially true, neither conforms to the SQL-92 standard.
>3 - Oracle had a greater part of the SQL C/S market than SQL Server, so
>you will find more specialist on Oracle designing.
I doubt that is true everywhere, only is some major markets.
>4 - Larry Ellison had make a 1 million $ bet to anyone can demonstrate
>that Oracle is under 100 time faster than SQL server
>And the bet has not been paid yet !!!
And lost that bet, he quietly withdrew it from the website when he saw he was going to lose. SQL-Server beat Oracle by 157% in one of the tests, and lost by 28% the other.
>5 - the strategy of Microsoft is to make you a prisonner of thoses
>systems, so that, when your data will be on a MS system, it will ever
>coste a lot : to maintain version or to migrate... MS is a super,
>maximized, and optimized making money machine and that's all !
>
>Frederic BROUARD - databases conceptor in FRANCE
>DELPHI - Paradox - SQL C/S expert
Judging by that answer, and your sig, we all can see the "winning" software packages you support.
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