Re: Serious article on comparison between MS SQL Server 2005 Yukon and Oracle 10

Serge Rielau wrote:

> FWIW I too find the article rather shallow. What stunns me most however
> is that a product that is being sold today is compared to one that is,
> as far as I am concerned, still vaporware.
> Presumably O10gR2 will be more than a bugfix release and will ship in
> the same timeframe, if not earlier than SQL Server 2005.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

Agreed on all points.

But this should not be a surprise. Microsoft has a habit of comparing their current release to Oracle releases that are so old as to, in some cases, no longer be supported: I've seen that several times.

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