Re: OT: Interesting DB article

From: NorwoodThree <norwoodthree_at_my-deja.com>
Date: 2 Oct 2003 16:28:10 -0700
Message-ID: <ba03e2c.0310021528.15ac2c78@posting.google.com>

Oracle has practically priced itself out of the market in my opinion. I have worked for companies that *are* IT (web services) and *arent* (manufacturing).

In both cases, neither cared about the lastust robust features or buzzword. It was all about cost and ease of use. Both manufacturing companies I worked for didnt even really care if the database was stable or not either. As long as the data was recoverable, that is all they wanted to pay for. No redundancy, and if its on NT or Windows and it went down once a week, they didnt care.

And most of the companies I have worked for are moving *away* from Oracle to SQL Server. And even MySQL for smaller needs. The ones that stay are using Oracle Financials, and Oracle is all you can run it on.

My .02 on that...everyone has had different experiences. Received on Thu Oct 02 2003 - 18:28:10 CDT