>"select tall_latte, milk*.10, foam*2
>where sugar is null"
AND cafffein = (select max(amount) from cause_of_death where ...)
ORCLJill wrote in message ...
>Stick with SQL Server, indeed it is dark days ahead for us Oracle DBA's. If
>the marketshare continues to slide I'll be getting out of the database
>field, perhaps even the IT field for sure, as many other Oracle DBA's will
>I'm sure.
>
>Don't be surprised at all if in the near future you order a latte from your
>favorite starbucks and you hear the waiter yell something like:
>
>"select tall_latte, milk*.10, foam*2
>where sugar is null"
>
>Jill
>XOCPDBA, SBCS, FUBAR+B
>
>
>"SQLJoe" <sqljoe_at_aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20020514161736.11762.00017419_at_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 Thu May 16 2002 - 14:02:48 CDT
