Re: Essbase vs. Oracle

Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<7cmhrv00tcoodh8j2ns8r88obde1ck0023_at_4ax.com>...
> On 15 Nov 2003 12:37:08 -0800, cosmini_at_yahoo.com (cosmin ioan) wrote:
>
> >hello all,
> >a number of years ago I briefly worked on Essbase (a few months) on a
> >dead-end project. Since then, I've moved to greener pastures and
> >working exclusively with Oracle.
> >
> >I've recently come across a new project that 'requires' Essbase.
> >I was wondering if anyone could tell me what Essbase does have that
> >Oracle does not, I guess, from an OLAP perspective :-)
> >
> >thx much,
> >Cosmin
>
> I've never seen Essbase, so take this for what it's worth . . . but if
> this project is a purchased app, my guess is the only thing Essbase
> has that Oracle doesn't is . . . the app vendor's certification.
>
> Our client was once had an app vendor say that their app had to run on
> SQL-Server because they had found that Oracle's performance was
> unacceptable with more than five concurrent connections! So much for
> the vendor's knowledge and expertise!

well, I was looking for an 'essbase' comparison expert answer but I guess I'm in the wrong forum. We all know that Oracle is pretty much capable of everything so my question was more geared towards Essbase. I even posted request for info to Essbase directly and I have yet to receive an answer. I will follow up with a message if I do.

thx all,
Cosmin

P.S. Yeah, that's my inclination also, re "vendor-app certification" but unfortunately realities of the world are different. I once started working for a company who, just 2 weeks prior to my hiring, purchased a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Essbase crap, only to, after hiring me, I showed them a quick and dirty, 15 minutes OLAP component that plugged into Delphi (or what have you), did the exact thing they needed. But, they "had to" stick with their huge investment which unfortunately, they ended up dropping approx 6 months later. Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 11:19:07 CST