Re: What about the Oracle vs Sybase Ads?

>To Sum things up:
 

>Sybase did a GREAT job of marketing and positioning their product. They looked
>at where their competition was, and tried to fill the niches that were
>left open (Fast Transactions, Techie oriented, great on small uniprocessor
>systems, Two Phase Commit, Ref Integrity). They innovated and coined a lot
>of industry buzzwords and really snowed over a lot of analysts (Finkelstein
>are you out there ??). Now the other vendors have implemented Sybase's
>unique features ...

Having worked with client-server systems, I can say that Sybase prospered because it set up the foundation for a client-server architecture that works. Their product is technically sound, providing the functionality such as stored procedures and triggers that permit deployment of real-life multiuser applications. Futhermore, my experience has been that a Sybase server can be installed in about half-an-hour and administered from two small manuals.

Distributed computing is a tough technical challenge to do well, requiring complex types of optimization to be practical in production. I must admit I am somewhat skeptical about the forthcoming production capabilities in this arena from a vendor which up to now did not even offer optimization in its basic SQL queries. -- David Scheim

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