Re: Benefits/Research

cr8tvepunkgirl_at_aol.com (Cr8tvepunkgirl) wrote in message news:<20041001013732.08240.00001394_at_mb-m18.aol.com>...
> Hi,
> i need all your help on this! I'm doing research on why the Oracle will be
> benfical to my company. I would like 1) Some reasons from you personaly on how
> this has benefited your company 2) a place where I can get research about the
> benefits
> Thankyou

Go to http://groups.google.com and select advanced search. Put in the group comp.databases.oracle.server. Search for any of the words recovery transaction repeatable read MSSQL performance scaling multiuser.

If you are looking for nicely formatted white papers for management, see http://www.oracle.com and especially http://otn.oracle.com.

If you want people here to help you, we would need to know what you expect Oracle to do for your company. If you are a small company with a few PC's, Oracle may not be beneficial for your company. If you are an intermediate sized company looking to decide between MS and Oracle in a packaged app, Oracle will likely be more expensive up front and in overhead but let you grow further and faster. If you are a big company, why are you even asking? Go Oracle and Linux and dump MS now.

As for me personally, it has benefitted all of the companies I've worked for over the last 15 years by being the best database for all the issues companies normally run into. It hasn't always been the best technically (Rdb, which is now an Oracle product, was at one time), but technical excellence isn't what makes the best product. The best product is the one that does the job best, including being able to recover from problems, maintainable, acceptable performance, appropriate features and so on. So to evaluate whether something is going to be beneficial, one must define the problems to solve. For an existing company, that usually means particular applications. For a company growing and buying other companies, that may mean dealing with heterogenous databases and applications.

If you over-generalize, any of the major databases can do pretty much of anything, and you wind up getting sold inappropriate solutions. You wouldn't buy 20 VW Beetles to get the football team to a game, would you? Cheaper than a school bus, until you pay the insurance and drivers...

jg

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