Re: ORACLE or SQL SERVER (MS) ?

On 22 Oct 2003 14:54:52 GMT, "Bill "shrek" Thater" <william.thater_at_carrier.utc.com> wrote:

>Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
>> Your experience is purely anecdotal. Other people's experience may
>> well differ. But one thing is definite and that is that I can put
>> either SQL Server or Oracle on a single CPU Pentium machine and both
>> will run. But while SQL Server will only run on the Windows operating
>> system with Oracle an organization has the choice to avoid paying
>> hundreds of dollars for the operating system, they can choose Linux,
>> and also avoid all of the problems with the huge number of Windows
>> only virus, worm, and trojan attacks.
>
>the ability exists, however at this point in time most companies do not
>have the talent available to manage other than Windows servers unless
>they are large enough to have Unix server farms. in that case they
>already would have Oracle installed on a unix platform. smaller
>companies would tend not to choose Oracle due to the lack of talent
>mentionsed as well as the adversity to adding a DBA to staff.

Even with SQL-Server, they will have a DBA. He may not be full time on DBA duties, and they may not call him a DBA . . . But one way or another, they will have one.

• Ed Stevens ("I used to be a Bear, and a good ol' Bear, too")