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Re: Oracle vs. MS SQL Server

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:44:30 -0800
Message-ID: <3E677AEE.D80CB95E@exesolutions.com>


Joel Garry wrote:

> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E662C8C.B649D540_at_exesolutions.com>...
> > CS wrote:
> >
> > > We support 100 companies nation wide and of those, 5 have Oracle and the
> > > rest MSSQL. They are all running on NT
> > >
> > > Recent upgrades to our product with implementation, cost run 2x higher on
> > > Oracle than MSSQL
> > >
> > > Oracle seems to be an essay test instead of pick and choose.
> > >
> > > Clients seem to report more downtime with oracle due to corruption. I won't
> > > swear to it but it seems that way.
> > >
> > > hth
> > > CS
> > >
> > > "dmz17" <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com> wrote in message
> > > news:pan.2003.03.04.21.10.38.874474_at_nospam.nowhere.com...
> > > > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:15:20 +0000, Phil wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Looking for a completed evaluation comparing Oracle with MS SQL Server.
> > Any
> > > > > ideas?
> > > >
> > > > I am afraid you will have to figure out your needs and how they would be
> > > > filled by any particular vendor for yourself.
> > > >
> > > > Go to Oracle's website and look, then go to Microsofts.
> > > >
> > > > Pick the vendor who appears less arrogant.
> > > >
> > > > This may be the hardest task.
> > > >
> > > > All else being equal, any modern RDBMS will do the job. The rest is
> > > > marketing.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > dmz17
> >
> > Then someone is totally incompetent or engaged in sabotage.

>

> That would be the person who wrote the app that runs on both db's, I'm
> sure.
>

> >
> > You don't seriously believe that almost every major company and government on
> > the planet is putting mission critical applications into Oracle when problems
> > such as you describe exist.
> >
> > Go to Microsoft, find someone working on their SAP accounting system and ask
> > them what RDBMS is being used as the repository.
>

> That's interesting! Which version? Is there verification of this
> outside of MS? Have they actually got it working? :-)
>

> >
> > No one with an IQ over room temperature could truly believe Bill Gates would use
> > a competitors product unless he had a darned good reason to do so.
>

> OTOH, very smart people can believe stranger things. Heck, Ford
> Engineering bought a Ferrari for, uh, reverse engineering...
>

> >
> > Daniel Morgan
>

> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "The situation would have to improve to get to 'it sucks.'" - Telecom
> venture capitalist.

That was the official excuse. I suspect the real reason was to drive something they couldn't otherwise afford.

A friend of mine went to work for a brewery in quality control. Of course they had to by expensive Belgian beers like Chimay to use for comparison purposes. Yeah Right! But what the heck ... management didn't stop 'em.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Mar 06 2003 - 10:44:30 CST

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