Re: opinions on oracle or IBM training....

On Wed, 23 May 2001 02:52:36 GMT, "pheonix1t" <pheonix1t_at_netscape.net> wrote:

I have done both. Oracle has 31 percent of the total market and IBM 30 percent of the market last I saw in the trade rags. The good thing about RDBMS is they all do pretty much the same thing. All do it a little differently. For instance, Oracle has had PL/SQL and Triggers a long time while IBM has not always had them. However, IBM had CBO and Partitioned tablespaces from day one. Now both products have all of the above and you can go on and on. I say learn them both if you got the time. Once upon a time Informix and Sybase were on top of the world with type writer comanies.

>hello people,
>I'm about to start embarking on training for dba. At first I was going to
>go with oracle but now i'm starting to wonder about IBM. Which oracle
>product is better to get certified on? I've seen a lot of 8i stuff....but
>what about the 9i or even 11i? What's the difference?? How long will 8i
>last for??
>Oracle also said they are coming out with an improved version that doesn't
>need as much maintenance on it so as to cut costs of ownership.....which one
>is that??
>Now IBM.....how do the oracle products stack up against the DB2 from IBM?
>From recent news, IBM seems to go more with the cross-platform/work with
>partner approach that seems to be a better business strategy from what
>several news sources have said compared to oracle which is a more closed
>approach. Is this true?? What do real-world professionals have to say
>about this?? How do you people feel about this? I'm going to invest a lot
>of time and energy into this so I really want to be sure I've made a good
>decision.
>What about doing both?? Are they really that different?? Is it like saying
>MS compared to a unix/linux machine??
>Sorry for all the questions..........but I really want to know !
>
>Oskar
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Received on Wed May 23 2001 - 05:19:33 CDT