http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/08/28/23563.aspx
wrote:
Allright, so I installed Oracle personal edition on my desktop. Here
are my peeves against oracle -
- First of all, the installation was in 3 cd's equivalent - so much
for microsoft being bloatware.
- When my PC boots up, I have Oracle's process taking up 96 MB of
memory compared to SQL Server's under 10MB, the memory usage keeps
going up exponentially as I use either product.
- Here's my biggest problem - when I wanted to uninstall Oracle, it
isn't in add/remove programs like all other friendly citizens of the
computer world, instead it has it's own crappy java based installer,
and instead of uninstall they prefer to call it "Deinstall", and
what's worse in the treeview it shows me, when I check an item to be
unistalled, the zillions of items under it, are still unchecked - are
they going to be uninstalled or will they be not? It takes a minimum of
3-4 hours to individually check everything there is.
- When the frickin' "de"-installation is complete, the installer
remains on the system. But it's group dissappears from my start menu or
add/remove programs or everywhere. Is there spyware in that?
- Talk about all the JUNK that Oracle installed in the first place,
look at your registry before and after Oracle got done trading the soul
of your poor PC, it adds many megabytes of information to the registry
.. what in the world !!!!
Larry Ellison IMHO has only one business idea - "Defeat bill gates
and trap every programmer in matrix like pods powering oracle
databases". WHAT THE HECK !! Time he matured up a bit.
SQL Server, especially Yukon is a MUCH better dbms in my opinion, the
only reason Oracle will continue to survive is
- Anti-Microsoft Zealots and Bigots .. and ..
- The huge installed base of Oracle (It isn't easy porting your DBMS
from Oracle to SQL Server).
Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 01:49:19 CDT
