who is answering for you ? seems to me
that whoever it is can write using a desent language
or did you just get the message ?
"SQLJoe" <sqljoe_at_aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020521140441.02455.00000090_at_mb-mu.aol.com...
> >Hows it doing in the UNIX enviroment?
> >\
>
> DB2 is gaining marketshare on Oracle in the Unix environment.
>
> http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/fixup.pl?story=http://www.infoworld.com/a
> rticles/hn/xml/02/05/08/020508hnibmontop.xml&dctag=database
>
>
>
>
> > Why should customers wait for a new high-end solution?
> >
> > Why should a customer buy a new product that will likely have large
> > amounts of bugs (first iterations always do)?
> >
> > Why is it that MS is only now coming >out with this?
>
> The MS is coming out with high end solutions now because it got into RDBMS
> market seriously only recently. In the early 90's, Microsoft decided to
build a
> truly competitive RDBMS product and hired the best and bright software
> engineers (many from Oracle) to build SQL 7.0 and above. Yes, they had SQL
> 4.0-6.5 but they were less than stellar and Sybase based.
>
> As to why the customers will switch to MS SQL from Oracle, there are many
> reasons.
>
> 1)Oracle is by far the most expensive database both in license AND
support.
>
> 2)Oracle has a history of ripping off their customers as much as they can.
The
> most recent example is their attempt to force its customers pay more for
the
> extra CPU in their servers. They were able to do this because, for a
while,
> they were the dominant player in the Enterprise level RDBMS market.
>
> 3)Both DB2 and MS SQL can point to several independent benchmarks which
show
> they are just as good, if not better, than Oracle in performance.
>
> 4)Oracle's main OS platform, SUN Solaris, is in big trouble. Many industry
> insiders believe its glory days are over because of stronger and cheaper
> compeition from HPux, AIX, and Linux.
>
> 5)Microsoft's Windows is gaining marketshare in the server OS market. IDC
has
> confirmed it will have 50% share by mid-2002 and will continue to gain
> marketshare in the foreseeable future. As I stated, Oracle is WEAK and
BUGGY in
> W2K.
>
> Before someone flames me, which is an inevitiability, let me state that
both
> UNIX and Oracle will NOT go away anytime soon. But I believe their
marketshare
> will continue to dimish. Certainly, there are currently no trend or signs
that
> either Unix or Oracle is GAINING marketshare in their respective market.
>
> Jinsoo
> MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE+I
>
>
>
Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 14:11:04 CDT
