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Re: Database market share 2004

From: Data Goob <datagoob_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 6 Jun 2005 13:53:44 -0700
Message-ID: <1118091223.959282.167930@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


You folks might want to get the online version of this magazine:

http://www.eosj.com

They are talking about many of the myths-n-shit you guys are propagating. This issue is one you won't want to miss.

Chris Browne wrote:
> Paul <paulsnewsgroups_at_hotmail.com> writes:
> > DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> >>There is another important reason too: Instrumentation. If they are
> >>slow diagnosing why is a question of making guesses. That may be a
> >>reasonable approach when supporting a small non-commercial web site.
> >>It is a non-starter when talking terabytes and a requirement for 7x24.
> >>And then there's that little problem with government requirements
> >>around audits. They just aren't ready for prime-time.
> >
> > I have worked for a company (big player in its field) and had an
> > interview with another (a giant in its field) where they had systems
> > that ran on all of the major db's - SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and
> > Sybase.
> >
> > These db's contain(ed) neither triggers, SPs, PL/SQL, Transact SQL
> > or any other proprietary features of any of these db's. The only
> > coding that varied between the db's was how to get an
> > autoinc/generator/sequence value and that was in some sort of middle
> > layer. They did make use of DRI in the db creation scripts.
> >
> > I'm not saying that that's a good thing (in fact I'm appalled), but
> > the fact of the matter is that many companies pay for expensive db's
> > when in fact they are little more than bitbuckets. I think that it's
> > only a matter of time before the IT industry is going to wake up to
> > the reality that (at least as far as *_I_* have seen) very little of
> > the capacity of an Oracle or DB2 is actually being used and make the
> > switch to cheaper or Open Source db's.
>
> You may want Oracle's instrumentation for terabyte-sized DBs requiring
> plenty-o-nines' uptime, but there are a whole lot of instances of
> "departmental" applications out there which are quite amenable to the
> 'leap' to free software databases.
>
> For applications that are mostly used during office hours by the
> limited population of staff within a department, you don't get a lot
> of value out of the difference in licensing costs between Firebird or
> PostgreSQL and Oracle.
>
> And there are plenty of those sorts of applications around.
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Received on Mon Jun 06 2005 - 15:53:44 CDT

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