Re: SYBASE acquired PowerSoft AND SDP, was Re: PowerBuilder acquires S-designer?

fcasas_at_ix.netcom.com (Francisco Casas) writes:
>I have a small addition. The combination of PowerBuilder and
>S-Designer also includes a free version of Watcom SQL. By contrast
>Oracle requires you to purchase Personal Oracle for MS-Windows. So
>the total RAM requirements of a CASE tool, development tool and a
>local database for Sybase and Oracle are:
 

>PowerBuilder/S-Designer/WatcomSQL: 8MB of RAM
 

>Developer/2000: 16MB
>Designer/2000: 16MB
>Personal Oracle: 8MB

I think that someone isn confused here. Perhaps it's me, after all I am only a consultant that uses Oracle, Powersoft, ObjectView, and a few others. (I use what the client wants.) I cannot say about Designer/2000 as I don;t have it, but:

        My set-up is a 486/66 with 24 Meg Ram. When I had 8MB, I could not develop in Powersoft and have *anything* else open. At that performance was slooowwww. I did upgrage before buying Oracle (16MB _at_ $580 or $36.25/MB) in order to get better performance with Powersoft (PowerMaker). I can be developing in D/2000, with Personal Oracle running and still use Lotus Notes.

Using both tools, I can't understand a straight comparison as above. Developer/2000 and Powersoft are not comparable in features and functions. Nor is WatcomSQL and Oracle7 (Personal Oracle). I can't take a WatcomSQL app and move it to a 200+ user network without *major* changes. I can't take a Powersoft app developed for WatcomSQL and move it to a 200+ user network using a large-scale RDBMS without *major* changes and tuning work to the point that only the initial design would be of help. I *can* take a D/2000 app developed against Personal Oracle and place it on a large network with no changes (except to login into a different database).

I did read the other posts in this thread and do agree that both sides should settle down. Yes, many company have multiple database. The market share break out is 35.x% Oracle, 18.x% Sybase, 17.x% Informix--last year Oracle and Sybase were pretty much the same as now and Informix was at 14.x%. I think Oracle should keep doing business as they are. Informix seems to be doing pretty well (I think New Era needs Native Drivers to non-Informix databases, though). Sybase needs to actually release System 11 and integrate Powersoft and SDP more closely to some RDBMS, as well as add more high-end and code generation abilities to S-Designer. IMHO

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