Re: Oracle or Sybase.

Someday Oracle will just buy them, hehe, like Microsoft does with all its competitors, and as Oracle already did with RdB.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Terry Dykstra" <dontreply_tdykstra_at_cfol.ab.ca> wrote in message news:71%E5.20320$24.4175604_at_news0.telusplanet.net...
> Where does this notion come from that Sybase won't be around as long as
> Oracle? A few years ago they had severe financial problems, but that is
> well behind them now. Version 12 of their database is a solid release. I
> would have no problems going with that.
>
> --
> Terry Dykstra
> Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
> "FGuelfucci" <guelfucci_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8s14pb$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 - 12:52:01 CDT