Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

From: Larry E <larry_at_nospam.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:32:22 GMT
Message-ID: <WtQcd.4328$YM4.1347973@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>

Rhino,

Frankly, if your friend Scott is a person who doesn't have a db background, he is not going to be able to understand any technical differentiators that are brought forth here (and their significance).

Secondly, when you post and ask such questions here ... all you are going to get are people's opinions ... some very biased opinions. This stuff is almost religious to some people. The best thing that Scott can do is to:

fully understand his customer's requirements from a business and technology perspective
tap into someone like Gartner, Mega, Giga for independent opinions on each dbms
search the tech media for any reviews of each product
call upon his local Oracle and IBM reps to bring whatever they can to the table

By the time he gets done here, his head is going to be spinning and he will be asking "so who is right and who do I listen to?"

Larry Edelstein

Rhino wrote:
> "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:4172BFFA.70603_at_comcast.net...
>

>>Rhino wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is *not* a troll and we don't want to start a flame war! Scott just
>>>want some honest facts to help him decide which product is best at which
>>>jobs.
>>>
>>
>>Two things
>>
>>1) This WILL end in a flame war.

>
>
> So how can I ask this question in a way that will get a meaningful answer
> rather than in flames?
>
>

>>2) You have posted this message to a defunct Oracle group. If you insist
>>on starting this at least use the right targets -
>>comp.databases.oracle.server

>
>
> Thank you! As I said in my original post, I've never used Oracle so I didn't
> know that comp.databases.oracle was defunct. It had a few recent on-topic
> posts in it and I had no idea what its normal activity level is so I tried
> that one. I'll repost to the correct newsgroup now that I know what it is.
>
> Rhino
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 18 2004 - 09:32:22 CDT