This is what I wanted to hear.. tks!
Gabriel
- "Goulet, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I'll be a little more forgiving than Raj
> has been. Basically MicroSoft is just the "pot
> calling the kettle black".
>
> On the issue of price, well yes MicroSoft does
> have an edge, but that's just how they've eliminated
> all of their other competition over the years. The
> product does not cost less than Oracle or DB2, it's
> just that MicroSoft can leverage the tremendous
> amounts of cash they have to offset the giveaway
> they're into. I believe that was one of the points
> of the Antitrust suit they were embroiled in.
>
> On RAC they really have a long way to go. If
> you want to do a federated database setup like
> MicroSoft states, just buy standard edition Oracle
> licenses & toss in a pile of database links. Works
> the same way & you don't have to pay extra for it.
> The whole idea of RAC is that when one node dies,
> for whatever reason, the data that node was hosting
> is not offline till you get it repaired. And
> actually you really do not need to do anything to
> your application to take advantage of RAC, except
> adjust your error handling to understand that a
> transaction needed to be resubmitted.
>
> Overall I think MicroSoft's Achilles heel is
> Windows. Their a one OS horse. Oracle is a multi OS
> horse that runs the same whatever the platform. And
> BTW, Oracle runs RAC on Red Hat without any
> additional software, never mind that it runs on
> Linux in the first place. Similar things can also
> be said for DB2, Sybase, and Informix. When, if
> ever, Microsoft has a version of Sql*Server that
> runs as multiple independent processes on Linux then
> I'll give them a second look. As long as their a
> single multi-threaded Windows only process they can
> stay in Redmond. Also, yes they are the "fastest
> growing" database on the market, take a look at that
> copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server you've got.
> There's a copy of Sql*Server 2000 in there, and you
> can't uninstall it. Billy G is still up to his old
> tricks. The only solution to MicroSoft is forced
> divestiture. Too bad that judge could not stand up
> to King George.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:40 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>
> Aargh ...
>
> you must be very brave telling a Oracle cult to move
> to SQL Server ...
>
> How do we know you are not Billy G using an alias
> ...
>
> 8>)
>
> Raj
>
>
> Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com
> All Views expressed in this email are strictly
> personal.
> QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is
> an art !
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:00 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> FYI
>
> One of my friends at Microsoft, (yes I must to
> confess, I have friends at MS) gave me a "present",
> it's a 4 cd's kit called "SQL Server 2000 for the
> Oracle Customer", the kit consist in 4 cd's with
> demos, docs, presentations, videos and a lot of
> stuff
> showing why sql server is a better option as a DB
> instead oracle, contains price lists, performance
> evaluation and many other "information", maybe you'd
>
> like to spend some of your time giving Billy a
> chance
> to defend his product. The 4 cd's are available
> (almost completely) as links in:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/oraclekit
>
> Any comments?
>
> Gabriel
>
>
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