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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.oracle -> Re: db2 vs oracle
Jim Kennedy wrote:
> So I guess years of using and having experience with Oracle, DB2, Ingres, > Sybase, Sql Server, XDB, SQL Base (Centura), Btrive, dBase (padadox, > CLipper, Foxpro),my SQL, Isam and others is just too narrow an experience. > I as far as I remember Goob is a pile of mess of buggers. At least my kids > say so. > Jim >
boogers not buggers.
Goob would be goobers, etc.
Again, thanks for your comments. According to your list, most of the databases you have had experience with are gone and practically forgotten. Most if not all of them are very simple in comparison to Oracle, not even in the same category. Paradox is gone. Foxpro lives on, and .dbf files live on in many phone dialers to this day. Sybase is trying to make a comeback, SQL-Server is so not interesting because of Sybase. The only one you mentioned with any glamour would be Ingres.
Interesting to have read a little of that book I mentioned, "SOFTWAR", about Ellison, and what he thought of Ingres--he was very impressed according to the author, with Dr. Stonebreaker and how good the engineering was in Ingres. It's enough of a statement to get me interested in Ingres again--there may be something there to use in a business context--and certainly for the person with the original post to this thread.
Thanks Jim, I'll be waiting for your review of Empress, the only one you seemed to have missed--er well their was Progress too.... so many players, so little left to choose from.
> > "Data Goob" <datagoob_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:Zs4Yc.1$QY2.0_at_fe55.usenetserver.com... >
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