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That will definitely not be MS. They are now for many years trying to defeat
Oracle and they still didn't succeed.
Also they uprooted several other products not because of the quality of
their own products, they simply forced the customer to use it (as you
probably are aware in the DOS era OEM were forced by MS to give away Windows
with any new PC, at the expense of the OEM. As you are also probably aware
they uprooted Wordperfect in the Netherlands by almost giving away Word)
So one of the reasons MS will not defeat Oracle, is Oracle is simply too
rich: they will survive such an attack.
The only option also for MS to defeat Oracle in the database field, is to
provide a port of Sqlserver running under Unix: anyone who knows anything
about the capabilities of NT and Win2K knows their scalability is too
limited.
Regards,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
"Robin R Handler" <rrhandle_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:92b1s2$vcv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I think you are all missing something. I have no doubt MS's aim is to
> product a database as good as for better than Oracle. They uprooted
> WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, . . . Who do you think will have the
> database market in five years?
>
>
> In article <922712$24s$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> sybrandb_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > In article <t494l2nsrgp32c_at_corp.supernews.com>,
> > "Michael A." <banana_boat_x_at_x_1stconnect.com> wrote:
> > > > Can anyone provide me some insight into the relative merits of
Oracle
> > > > vs SQL 2000?
> > >
> > > I haven't used SQLServer all that much myself, but I know it's
usually not
> > > mentioned in polite company in the firms for which I've done work in
recent
> > > years. Mostly things having to do with table corruption and
scalability.
> > >
> > > Personally, it's a Big Red Flag when I see a so-called enterprise-
level DBMS
> > > including, and even relying upon, a utility for recovering corrupted
> > > database tables. Why is it even needed?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > If you mean Oracle by a 'so-called enterprise level DBMS' and you
would
> > know anything about the transaction concept in relational databases,
> > you could have answered this question yourself. How do you expect to
> > recover from failure in Sqlserver if your last backup was several days
> > or more ago? You probably know the answer: you can't!
> > If that's ok with you stick to sqlserver or other Microsoft provided
> > toys like Access which should never been used for enterprise level
> > information systems.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> >
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Received on Tue Dec 26 2000 - 15:43:33 CST