Re: Oracle versus MS Sql Server

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:14:26 GMT
Message-ID: <3bd2ad8e.2682033@news.optusnet.com.au>

In a valiant and sublime effort,Dino Hsu frowned, dipped a thumb in soot and doodled:

>Oracle DBA is valuable. However, don't you see that Oracle is trying
>to make their products "easier-to-use" while Microsoft is trying to
>make theirs more powerful? Oracle DBA might not garantee your
>technical competitiveness forever.

That is a very good point. ORACLE would do well to have less "experts" around doing beta testing of their software. Might make it easier to find and fix obvious "features" that shouldn't have been there in the first place...

>After all, we are not doing Oracle
>for the sake of Oracle alone, we are doing Oracle for OLTP, ERP, SCM,
>CRM, EC, EIP, OLAP, reporting and querying, data warehousing, data
>mining, workflow, etc... each of them requires a lot of knowledge to
>get the jobs done.

Exactly.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Sun Oct 21 2001 - 06:14:26 CDT