The future of Oracle Vs MS SQL and DB2

From: SQLJoe <sqljoe_at_aol.com>
Date: 14 May 2002 20:17:36 GMT
Message-ID: <20020514161736.11762.00017419@mb-mq.aol.com>

Hello everyone, I would like to get your opinions on the future of Oracle database. Recently, studies have indicates that Oracle is losing marketshare both in Unix and Windows platform. Furthermore, Sun Microsystem, which was the favorite platform of Oracle, is going downhill (there are many in the Unix world who believe Sun's glory days are gone).

I am seriously considering learning Oracle after working five years as a MS SQL DBA. How does the future of Oracle look like? Will it continue to lose marketshare? What do you project its marketshare to be (from current 34%) five years from now?

Joe
MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE+I Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 15:17:36 CDT