Re: The future of Oracle Vs MS SQL and DB2

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:56:53 GMT
Message-ID: <3CE28542.5351D61C@exesolutions.com>

SQLJoe wrote:

> 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
You wouldn't happen to be a friend of master-dba would you? I mean both of you posting from AOL and all?

By the "future of Oracle" are you looking at the stock (that's Larry's problem) or the product? I don't see Oracle doing an Informix or becoming a Sybase any time soon.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 10:56:53 CDT