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Re: Database or store to handle 30 Mb/sec and 40,000 inserts/sec

From: Tony Rogerson <tonyrogerson_at_sqlserverfaq.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:03:55 -0000
Message-ID: <dt535n$dbn$1$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk>


> Ummmm - you appear to underestimate the power of marketing.
> Basing any decision on 'what everyone else does' is subject to flaw.
> Yet, the primary Microsoft model is: flood the media and everyone who does
> not have time to evaluate properly will go to the populist source by
> default. Regardless of whether it is gold or crap in the specific
> situation.

People in Marketing rank high on my kill list if there is ever a civil war, Salesman are worse but Politicians - god!

I think Oracle, IBM and Microsoft in the database arena market at around the same volume.

> I am deliverately avoiding the 'technology' discussion, as we both know
> that Microsoft and Oracle have technology that delivers well, when used
> properly.

May be when Oracle is a lot easier to use, and may be Express will be the answer to that then the uptake will be the same as SQL Server and MySQL; SQL Server penetration has grown literally because of cost and simplicity of use (which has led to some badly designed and poor performing apps!).

Most small businesses and web start ups want a simple store that they can use SQL against, most of the time they are developers with little database knowledge and can't afford to hire a DBA thats all; thats why MySQL is so popular as well.

-- 
Tony Rogerson
SQL Server MVP
http://sqlserverfaq.com - free video tutorials


"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message 
news:pan.2006.02.17.17.32.04.43676_at_telus.net...

> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:16:52 +0000, Tony Rogerson wrote:
>
>>
>> If the product is crap then nobody would use it - would they?
>
> Ummmm - you appear to underestimate the power of marketing.
>
> People still eat at/from fast food places, even though the medical
> evidence indicates that this is not a good thing. (see virtually
> any medical journal on the cause and effect of obesity in North
> Americans.)
>
> Basing any decision on 'what everyone else does' is subject to flaw.
>
> Yet, the primary Microsoft model is: flood the media and everyone who does
> not have time to evaluate properly will go to the populist source by
> default. Regardless of whether it is gold or crap in the specific
> situation.
>
> I am deliverately avoiding the 'technology' discussion, as we both know
> that Microsoft and Oracle have technology that delivers well, when used
> properly.
>
>
> Or perhaps you do not underestimate the power of marketing, but support it
> slideways? Shills have appeared here on a regular basis, many having
> precisely this argument.
>
> --
> Hans Forbrich
> Canada-wide Oracle training and consulting
> mailto: Fuzzy.GreyBeard_at_gmail.com
> *** Top posting [replies] guarantees I won't respond. ***
>
Received on Fri Feb 17 2006 - 12:03:55 CST

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