Re: Why SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebels Move from Oracle to DB2 ?

From: Bernard <bernard_craddock_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:33:20 +1000
Message-ID: <3c3b04e6$0$20943$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

move away from Oracle to DB2 "NO"
Implement on DB2 as well as Oracle "YES"

Why,

    marketing response

        To increase their customer base by picking up traditional big iron customers

   financial response

         A couple of years ago Oracle starting getting super greedy and changed their licensing

        agreement, charging far more than anyone else for their database.
       Customers most affected were these vendors who were at the mercy of

Oracle. In stepped IBM and offered all of them big discounts to port to DB2. Oracle in their never ending drive to get bigger and bigger have to push their crappy Oracle apps to get more customers, problem is their biggest value added customers i.e SAP/ Peoplesoft now become their competitors.

I occasionally work for a software company who are also porting to DB2 as well as Oracle
some of the guys now support both DB2 and Oracle

From technical perspective DB2 is powerful/robust/stable/disciplined/boring and stuffy, Oracle
is dynamic/exciting/bleeding edge/flaky/overhyped and bug ridden. I'm sticking with Oracle

Oracle have since back tracked on the controversial licensing agreement.

my 2cents worth

"Krist" <xtanto_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cb48a3b.0201080326.4df9929b_at_posting.google.com...
> HiAll ,
> I am still considering whether to go to DB2 or Oracle way for our
> company to go.
> From some threads in the DB2 NG, it said that : SAP, PeopleSoft,
> Siebels Move from Oracle to DB2.
>
> Is that correct ? If yes, Why ?
>
> Thanks for the info,
> Krist
Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 08:33:20 CST