Re: Overcoming objections to Oracle

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:19:57 -0500
Message-ID: <3udsbeF10r61gU1@individual.net>

DA Morgan wrote:
> D Baldwin wrote:
>

>> " I can't think of a single bank ... not BofA, not
>> Washington Mutual, etc. that is not an Oracle shop."
>>
>> Wells Fargo is also an Oracle shop, a friend of mine just went to work 
>> for
>> them.
>>
>> Dana Baldwin
>> Intel DBA

>
>
> I'd personally be surprised to find any bank in the US that
> wasn't. Doesn't mean they aren't out there. But that would
> not stop me from being surprised.

Sidenote: Most, if not all, major companies have some of everything. A function of mergers and acquisitions if not dual vendor company policy. E.g. Wells Fargo is also a "DB2 for LUW shop".

To stick with the topic though, from the little interaction I have, those who like "multi valued" like it a lot (a bit like beer preference ;-). Typically multi-valued systems (like the ones IBM inherited from Informix) are used as embedded DBMS and invisible. I'm somewhat surprised to see a reference in what is apparently a custom application.
Migration of the beast would indeed be "interesting". Maybe cheaper for the OP to learn that multi-valued DBMS (and build new skills) than forcing migration to purely relational. Dependening on what the app does maybe XML (on Oracle for comfort) would be a better choice?

Cheers
Serge

-- 
Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Mon Nov 21 2005 - 06:19:57 CST