Re: Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

James.Lawrence_at_epamail.epa.gov (Lawrence James) writes:
>I've seen this type of argument too many times. The fact is most of it is
>subjective. The outcome of such comparisons is based on the level of
>importance that is put on each capability. I've no doubt that someone could
>say that Oracle's ability to group procedures into packages or Oracle's use of
>one language in both it's tools and database procedures is more important. It
>goes on to the next level and one could say that Oracle's ability to manage
>multiple cursors through a single connection or Oracle's transactional control
>and read consistency are more important that stored procedures anyway.
 

>Obviously Sybase is a good product or it would not be around at all. However
>to take the Oracle position in this argument I would say check the single
>non-subjective measure I know, market share. The rest doesn't matter,
>want proof, look at MS-Windows.

I think there is something wrong with this argument. Microsoft Windows sucks compared to a lot of other OSes out there (AmigaOS, MacOS, OS/2).

Market share means nothing therefore from your arguement... Received on Wed Nov 30 1994 - 16:03:25 CET