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Re: Newbie's Oracle 9i impression: it sucks

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:24:35 GMT
Message-ID: <3CEA9EE7.67E7C04D@exesolutions.com>


SQLJoe wrote:

> >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
Liars, damned liars, and statistics as the quote goes:

Some day I would like to know what relevance "new license revenue" has to anything other than the price of stock on NASDAQ. And even that is, to some extent, questionable.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 14:24:35 CDT

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