Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:34:29 -0800
Message-ID: <1080682452.163968@yasure>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1080617335.860241_at_yasure...
>

>>Niall Litchfield wrote:
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>>>"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
>>>news:1080571438.278258_at_yasure...
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>>>>Prove what? That Microsoft runs its SAP financial package on top
>>>>of Oracle? Should be simple enough. We both know they aren't running
>>>>it on SQL Server or Sybase ..
>>>
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>>>Why does anyone care? Can SAP run on MSSQL effectively - answer yes. We

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> all
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>>>know that. Speculating about what one company may or may not run doesn't

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> get
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>>>us anywhere. The fact is that all of Oracle,DB2 and MSSQL run enterprise
>>>scale, business critical apps. Claiming that the competitor can't do it

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> when
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>>>it clearly can is far too close to marketing for my liking.
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>>>
>>>--
>>>Niall Litchfield
>>>Oracle DBA
>>>Audit Commission UK
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>>Except that if your statement was correct ... they'd be running on
>>their own software wouldn't they? So apparently there is a difference.

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> check out
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> http://www.microsoft-sap.com/case_studies.asp
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> and more especially
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> http://www.microsoft-sap.com/docs/Microsoft%2012pg%20Case%20Study.pdf

My phone calls completed ... the best information I can glean is that Microsoft is still running on Oracle.

Take a good look at that hardware configuration. Based on your own background and experience do you really think you can run the financial package for a Fortune 500 on two 8 proc 550MHz Pentium IIIs?

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