Re: NASA/Need Opinions On Oracle

In article <1992Mar27.200343.21491_at_news.dfrf.nasa.gov>, barrydm_at_dryden.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mark Barry) writes...
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>We are going to be transferring some telecommunications data base software
>(EDMS/Ingres clone) to either a Sun/Sparc or Silicon/Iris work station and
>will need to purchase a new data base. One of the deciding factors besides
>cost will be how it can import the old data. We will be looking at four
>different vendors: Ingres, Informix, Sybase and Oracle. Considering either
>of these two hardware platforms, can anyone express opinions and/or exper-
>iences with Oracle? Thanks...
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>Mark Barry
>NASA
>barrydm_at_dryden.dfrf.nasa.gov

I am a contractor on the Space Station Freedom Project TMIS Contract. We are using Oracle on IBM MVSs and VAXs for the project-wide and site specific database applications. Oracle's big avantage is that an application developed on the PC can easily be ported to a PC or VAX running Oracle. I can go on and on but that is what the sales department of Oracle Corp. is for. Oracle does monitor this group and I would assume that they have already contacted you. I feel that it is one of the better RDBMS.

My views are my own and may not be those on my employer or client.

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