Re: Oracle on DEC ALPHA
Date: 31 Jan 1995 00:34:15 GMT
Message-ID: <3gk0i7$l86$2_at_mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
Thanks for the response, Lisa. I think the absense of a response from an Oracle rep says a lot about this issue...
We're an OpenVMS shop and I have to say that a number of our
developers (coming from Oracle/UNIX backgrounds) agree that
we're getting neither the price/performance nor the price/support
that we would expect, given our company's significant investment
in hardware and software.
While there's still some room for tuning in our environment, I'm
still standing by my claim that our $100k+ machine could be
out-performed by a $30k Sun box. That's bad.
Regardless of tuning and performance, Oracle's support for VMS
and DECNet are clearly not on the top of the list. I would like
to see a comparison of the # of Oracle tech bulletins written for
UNIX vs. those written (or even translated) for VMS systems.
We're comfortable with Oracle's RDBMS release schedule, but not
their level of support for VMS production systems.
Rich Gaston
Bay Area CellularOne
SSF CA
Received on Tue Jan 31 1995 - 01:34:15 CET