Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

michaelnewport_at_yahoo.com (michael newport) wrote in message news:<63b202d.0410260032.6d1b9a7b_at_posting.google.com>...
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098752193.942650_at_yasure>...
> > michael newport wrote:
> >
> > > I am now (1 year) working with Oracle and my work involves doing the
> > > same stuff that I did with Ingres (see previous post).

Well, you need to get more experience with new stuff. Doing the same thing over in a different environment should give you an increased appreciation of what you are doing, and what you could be doing.

> >
> > That's not the fault of the product. That direct and proximate
> > responsibility falls on you for being a dinosaur. How much code have
> > you implemented with bulk binding? How much with the model clause?
> > How much with analytic functions? How many materialized views with
> > refresh logs?
>
> its answers the users needs.
> and it was written by the dealine.
> which meant my company got paid.
> although some of this money was then sent to Oracle to pay for the
> licence.
> if we had used Ingres we could have done the same job for less, or
> increased our profits.

I used to work for a vendor of a product that worked on multiple databases, including Ingres. They dropped Ingres support due to lack of interest from potential customers. Are you sure whoever paid your company would have been interested with Ingres? Many products are considered more desireable simply because they are more expensive. Stupid, true, but the way of the world.

I do recall one banking customer had a problem because their currency was so inflated Ingres couldn't handle the number of bits in the numbers.  

> But technology for its own sake is a waste of money.

I would agree with that, except out of all the useless flak sometimes a gem comes, and sometimes a critical mass is created to actually improve things.

jg

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