Re: Database market is saturated fully, there is no more room!!

Why is it that the only way these Linux people can push their product is through complete fabrication and total falsehood? Can't the product stand up to real analysis and facts? If you have to lie to make your point, then the point isn't worth making.
If 'atomboy' is a sample of the kind of individual that uses this environment, then I think I'll stay as far away from it as I can.

atomboy_at_bcl.com wrote:

> Very soon, market will be flooded with database vendors.

The number of database vendors is expected to fall as the market consolidates. Meta, Giga, etc. all agree on this point.

> More competition means tougher time ahead for vendors, but it is better
> for customers. So there will rough road for oracle,sybase, informix in
> the
> near future!!

Why can't people write English? Is it too hard to capitalize proper nouns? I think this lazy approach to communication is indicative of the lazy approach to rational thought exhibited in the note.

> Bigger market share will be ONLY on Intel based systems,

Last year the amount of data stored in mainframe databases grew by a larger amount than in any previous year. Even licenses of DB2 grew by 7% in the MVS world. I am sure the same can be said of the UNIX world, but I don't have the numbers in front of me.

> 32 bit and intel 64bit cpu (upcoming merced chip).

The Merced chip will run RISC systems. That is the whole point. Both HP and Sun will be using it. To run Linux? I think not.

> Today Intel platform
> is completely
> dominated by LINUX.

I have a question for 'atomboy'. What color is the sky on your planet?

> The main operating systems
> for databases in this area will be -
> 1. Linux - Awarded best network operating system
> beating the NT, SCO. It is the fastest OS on the
> intel platform today. In performance tests (multi-processors) it
> scaled
> better than NT (see article on redhat site).
> 2. NT - Because of marketing muscle power of M$. (technically
> a bad OS compared to LINUX (unix)).
> NT is specially made by M$ where in ONLY MS SQL server will
> run
> very efficiently and others like oracle, sybase WILL NOT perform well.

Today Oracle has roughly the same installed base on NT as SQL Server. It performs as good as if not better than SQL Server in all aspects. Look at the published TCP C and D numbers. The statement above is patently false, as anyone who bothers to look can tell.--
Bill Backs
Sobek Consulting Received on Tue Feb 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CST