Re: Oracle versus Sqlserver

Mark, Daniel,

could u be a bit more exact?

which financial system, which datawarehouse (maybe its only available on oracle / unix)

what i wanna see is for what purpose, what load etc. MS better uses ora / unix

what i have heard is that they run (in the past?) some websites (hotmail?) on unix...

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:B86EF9F4.9E3B%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
> in article 3C494665.D4D0078E_at_exesolutions.com, Daniel A. Morgan at
> damorgan_at_exesolutions.com wrote on 1/19/02 2:11 AM:
>
> > Financial systems.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
>
> And a data warehouse or two.
>
> > Steffen Ramlow wrote:
> >
> >> ok, if it is proved - then tell us, what is running on ora or unix at
MS?
> >> i'm very interested in this!
> >>
> >> "Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> >> news:3C480C6D.586265B6_at_exesolutions.com...
> >>> Proved as in ... I work in Redmond Washington. And have friends that
work
> >> there.
> >>>
> >>> Daniel Morgan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Steffen Ramlow wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> is this a proved statement? what runs MS on oracle or unix?
> >>>>
> >>>> "Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> >>>> news:3C47148F.E5610381_at_exesolutions.com...
> >>>>> Because you can't run a company that big on Win2000 and SQL Server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bill would not risk his fortune on his own software: Would you?
> >> Reminds me
> >>>> of
> >>>>> a joke that went around Boeing when I was consulting there. It went
> >> like
> >>>>> this: "Would Bill Gates fly on an airplane if the operating system
was
> >>>> NT?":
> >>>>> Would you?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Daniel Morgan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Steffen Ramlow wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> why?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> >>>>>> news:3C46E286.F7D12EB0_at_exesolutions.com...
> >>>>>>> Everyone is qualified to comment on the list. The problem is that
> >> the
> >>>>>> number of
> >>>>>>> people that are experts in both systems (as opposed to those with
> >> huge
> >>>>>> egos) is
> >>>>>>> vanishingly small. I guess it comes down to this very simple
> >> question:
> >>>>>> "Why is
> >>>>>>> Microsoft Corporation one of Oracle Corporation's biggest
> >> clients?"
> >>>> And
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>>> pretty much sums it up.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Daniel Morgan
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >
>
Received on Sat Jan 19 2002 - 12:58:28 CST