Re: Comparisons of TCA between Oracle and SQL Server

hpuxrac wrote:
> There's a fairly amusing item posted here ...
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002689&pageNumber=1
>
> What to me is most amusing is the methodology or lack thereof. It
> looks like the author created some kind of survey and had some set of
> people fill it out. Then he called it a study and attempted to draw
> some conclusions from it.
>
> I guess I am getting old and perhaps am prejudiced by having parents
> that conducted real research at reputable universities.

Amusing? It is a bloody joke beginning with the first line of the table.

Product                     Average number of databases per company
=========================   =======================================
Microsoft SQL Server 2005   107
Oracle Database 10g          87

SQL Server 2005 has been released software for how many months? ComputerWorld should apologize to its readers.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group