Where does this notion come from that Sybase won't be around as long as
Oracle? A few years ago they had severe financial problems, but that is
well behind them now. Version 12 of their database is a solid release. I
would have no problems going with that.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"FGuelfucci" <guelfucci_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8s14pb$mtb$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> We design in VC++ for Sybase and Oracle and there isn't any great
> difference when it comes to coding, for this reason I would think that
> Sybase is fine.
> On the other hand Sybase will not handle the size of the DB nearly as
> well as Oracle unless you have a near perfect architecture. This is
> something you need to take into account if you really expect to grow at
> 20GB a year.
> Personally I would go for Oracle as it is more 'stable' and is likely
> to be around for a while longer than Sybase.
>
> Florent Guelfucci
> Software Engineer
>
> In article <8s08iu$kbg$1_at_isdserv3.macbank>,
> "Rowan McCammon" <rowan.mccammon_at_macquarie.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm not trying to start a war here but rather am hoping that some
people in
> > this group have worked with both Oracle and Sybase and therefore can
help us
> > out with a tough decision.
> >
> > Situation is we're tossing up whether to go Oracle or Sybase. Ideally
we'd
> > like to go with Oracle but licensing cost of Oracle is prohibitive
compared
> > with Sybase as company has site license.
> >
> > So there would have to be some compelling technical reason to go in
favour
> > of Oracle.
> >
> > The application is a OLTP system with a user base of about 300-500
users
> > (not concurrent).
> >
> > The DB contains a BLOB.
> >
> > The total size of the DB is expected to be initally about 20GB and is
> > expected to grow 20GB annually.
> >
> > The business would like high availability.
> >
> > Based on these broad requirements can anyone see any problems/risks
going
> > with Sybase?
> >
> > Any comments welcome.
> >
> >
>
>
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> Before you buy.
Received on Wed Oct 11 2000 - 09:44:19 CDT
