oracle for dw/business intelligence

hi all,
i have a dw/bus intelligence project and i am considering tools oracle, sap bw, microsoft, sas, peoplesoft, etc. can you share with me your opinions on oracle's data warehousing solution. i like oracle and have heard these competitive knocks against oracle.

1. Products are packaged together (Express, Designer,etc. ) which were never architected to work together. is this true..
2. Oracle basically believes that data warehouses need to be build instead of being bought. this is expensive...
3. Oracle has a wide range of different modules in different phases of their life-cycle that one has to learn to implement an OLAP solution. Most of these are not easy to combine.
4. With the Oracle set of tools, drilling down to the base relational data requires Oracle to fire off a previously defined query.
5. To implement a Oracle data warehouse, you have to buy different products and days of consulting. There is no further methodology.
6. Oracle offers no integration functions for industry specific needs.

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Nov 08 2000 - 23:02:15 CET