Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

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My gripe with Microsoft is not their specific products per se. My clients and I use many of them, for good business reasons.

My gripe with Microsoft is about their leadership, and how they have driven the market place in the area of reliability. They have placed more weight on backwards compatability, features, and prompt introduction to the market place, rather than reliability of the product itself. In some ways, they support the attitude that PCs are not for critical applications, and the consumer would be happier with compatability, more features and prompt introduction, than reliability.

Windows locks up or GPFs or does strange things, and we shake it off as "oh, it's Windows". We buy new releases and accept the fact that they will be buggy until we apply the numerous service releases. And for the totally disasterous releases, like Access 95, we just wait until the new version comes out. We, the consumer, have been lead to believe that bugs, major bugs, are "normal", and we should expect software to have them.

Netscape woke up Microsoft to the importance of the Internet. Maybe Linux will wake them up to the importance of reliability. Someone needs to take a leadership role in this area.

Steven Received on Sat May 08 1999 - 17:54:09 CDT