Re: Oracle vs Microsoft SQL Server

> my crystall ball simply says the vendor of the OS has the best chance
> of coming out with the best RDBMS for that platform eventually. that's
> common sense. I know Oracle is the better product at this point. but
> if you want to make sure you get your investment's worth in the long
> run, you ought to look 5 or even 10 years ahead and pick the product
> which you think will be the best one down the road.

This is just the sort of thinking that will ensure that a certain very large and aggressive software and OS developer will have a monopoly in a few very short years. I can think of far too many superior products that have fallen by the wayside because they couldn't compete with Microsoft's marketing machine. By giving our money to Microsoft now, and buying an inferior product, all we are doing is giving them more money for their saturating marketing campaigns. If everybody picks the best product today, those companys will have the money to produce superior products tomorrow. Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT