Re: Oracle VS SQL Server - Which is best to back end ?

I think I read the same article - it was one of the weekly "rags" that come in the mail (Probably Info Week).

According to the article, Microsoft was unable to duplicate the complexity and reliability of a Unix/Oracle environment in a company that they aquired with Windows 2000 and SQL Server. I don't recall the article mentioning the aquisition (company).

IMHO, Oracle 8.1.6 and later is a better RDBMS, but I like SQL Server 2000 for the DTS, Analysis Services (including data mining), and SQL Server's scheduler. I use both products in conjunction - I just don't use SQL Server's RDBMS.

I'd not expect Oracle 8.1.7 (available for shipping any day now) to change matters much. Oracle 9i, though, due in about a year (?) may change things.

On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:09:10 +0100, Neil Pike <100577.553_at_compuserve.com> wrote:

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> Apart from Hotmail that still runs partly on Unix I'm not aware of other current instances of this....
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> > > and it is reported that Microsoft runs it's backend systems on Oracle and
>> > Sun...hmmm...why would Micrsoft do that???
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  Received on Sat Oct 07 2000 - 11:24:44 CEST