Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

Donning Asbestos Flame Suite:

Just like all things Microsoft, it is inevitable SQL Server will dominate the database market. Just think about it, there hasn't been a market that Microsoft hasn't ultimately dominated if given enough time. I remember in the early days when there were fierce battles and speculation as to who would dominate this market or that. Lets take a look at it:

Microsoft has dominated the following and has left its respective competitor for dead:
Operating Systems: Windows(DOS) vs. OS/2 Word Processors: Word vs. WordPerfect
Spreadsheets: Excel vs. Quattro Pro
C++ Compilers: MSVC vs. Borland
Office Suites: MS Office vs. Lotus Suite

Microsoft is currently engaged in the following battles: NT vs. Unix
IIS vs. Unix web servers (apache etc)
SQL Server vs. Oracle
Internet Explorer vs. Netscape Navigator

Although the battle is raging on with Microsoft slightly behind in the web server and Database areas, just give them a little time. They are relative newcomers to these fields but the writing is on the wall. I develop internet applications and there is a saying among Microsoft developers:

"Microsoft Tools are a developers dream and a sysadmin's worst nightmare."

but their servers are only going to get better with time and if worse comes to worst you can always just add more hardware until they catch up. I could go on even about such trivial things as joysticks (the MS Sidewinder was revolutionary and cheap for its day)

Counting on Microsoft to fail in any area they attempt to compete in is analogous to those investors that shorted MSFT stock in the '80s which has since split and doubled a dozen times. In other words, don't ever bet against them.

>What did you think about the MS trial ?
>I remember the time when pro was saying "I don't take other product than
>Microsoft one's because I am sure they will be there in 10 years and I
>want to preserve my money"... And now they have to migrate erternally a
>pay for it from a version to another because in MS buildings technicians
>are properly incompetent... Example : SQL Server 6 did not know that
>year 2000 had a february 29 !!!!!!!
>
>How can you work with a company that the standard process with the
>custumer is pay to have the product, pay to have the correction, pay to
>have a hotline, pay for the bugs we commited ???
>
>In France the great majority of PC owners personnal or pro is begining
>to see the light, and the most important part of it want to migrate.
>Imagine that about 80% have Word install in the machine, but Word had so
>many bugs that it is impossible to work with, so they have to take
>another and pay...
>
>FB

Pretty ironic coming from a Frenchman that you should criticize one of the most successful companies the world has ever known. I think everyone is aware of the success French products such as Peugeots, Renaults, and Citroens have had in the US.

(for those that are not aware, France stopped importing their cars to the US many years ago because we wouldnt buy those technological wonders)

David I. Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 18:01:33 CDT