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

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:29:24 GMT
Message-ID: <3CEACA38.86265420@exesolutions.com>


Andy Hardy wrote:

> In message <20020521140932.02455.00000093_at_mb-mu.aol.com> , SQLJoe
> <sqljoe_at_aol.com> writes
> >Daniel Morgan Says:
> >
> >>That said ... "CLEARLY taking over marketshare" is both questionable in fact
> >>and questionable in
> >>relevancy. First off, how would anyone know? And by what criterion is
> >>marketshare judged if we did
> >>have access to real numbers? Number of licenses? Number of CPUs? Number of
> >>machines? Number of
> >>connected users? Volume of data?
> >>
> >>Which is larger? One license for a production database at Amazon.com or 100
> >>licenses for databases
> >>at Junior's Hot Dog Stands, Inc.?
> >
> >
> >Daniel, you really should more about Oracle before you make your conclusions.
> >Please check this site.
> >
> >http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/fixup.pl?story=http://www.infoworld.com/a
> >rticles/hn/xml/02/05/08/020508hnibmontop.xml&dctag=database
> >
>
> Presumably you didn't read the article yourself?
>
> --
> Andy Hardy. PGP ID: 0xA62A4849

And what is truly laughable is that there are multiple licensing models. So some clients site license, some license by CPU, some license by connected user, some by named user ... the comparisons are a statisticians dream. The numbers can be twisted to mean just about anything.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue May 21 2002 - 17:29:24 CDT

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