RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

Keep in mind when you say "cost of operation" that also means the cost of making a change including rewriting most of your custom code. I'm not privy to the decision making in financial companies but I assume a decision based on 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' would be different from one based on 'if we were starting fresh today'.

Henry

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• Guy Hammond <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>

> That's about all I can be bothered to type for now. In summary, I would
> like to say that Sybase is a fine product for your grandmother to store
> her recipes in :0)

Interesting to note that a good number of financial companies -- who make a living off of fast, stable databases -- use Sybase. They tend to prefer it for its combination of speed and cost of operation. None of them store recipies on it that I know of, nor do they allow their grandmothers access to the systems.

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