Re: Is Ingress ...

In article <CB79C4.6r0_at_nvl.army.mil>, bajones_at_sparta (Ebeth Jones) writes:
> Hi -
>
> I have a question that may or may not be appropriate for this group,
> and hopefully will NOT start a major flame war. I have been using
> ORACLE for about 4 years now, as was the rest of our lab up until a
> couple of years ago. At that time, the powers that be in our lab
> decided to switch to Ingres, one reason being that you have more
> visibility into files and more control over them. I suspect that
> another reason was that ya always gotta have something new, whether
> its an improvement or not. Anyway, we are now in the market to upgrade
> or get a new database. My system administrator tells me that I should
> go with Ingres, not only to standardize within our lab, but he says that
> the reason Oracle is so popular is because its been around a long time
> and everyone knows how to use it, not that its necessarily a good
> database, and that he thinks Oracle is on the way out. Opinions?
>
> Elizabeth
>
Tell your system administrator that it would be best if he had his resume up to date. Has he not looked at V7, Forms4 or seen the Oracle/Novell announcements? What about databrowser et al? The people at Oracle may be at times an arrogant bunch of SOBs, but their product is good and keeps getting better.

>
Received on Wed Aug 04 1993 - 14:21:19 CEST