Re: Need Comparisons of Oracle 7 and Sybase 10

dil.admin_at_mhs.unc.edu (David I. Laudicina) writes:

>I am not sure anyone seriously considering a production server would buy
>Sybase or Oracle

    Ummmm. I don't think you will find a more stable and     fault tolerant DB than these two unless you go to     some proprietary DB but even then I don't think     you will gain much.

    We need only look at the thousands (millions?) of shops running     production Oracle and Sybase servers. Many of them 24 X 7.

    What did you have in mind ? DB2 perhaps ?

>for that matter running on a Netware OS. The real comparison
>should be made on SMP UNIX and NT boxes.
>Thx Dave L

   Interesting point. So for anyone who wants to use Oracle    in this way, they MUST go out and buy a high end SUN or    equivalent ? I don't think so. Try telling this to    the small or mid sized company that wants the power,    security and robustness of an Oracle or Sybase database    but does not have the resources to administer another    box running UNIX or NT.

   There are tons of shops out there running Oracle on Netware.    The recent crap about Oracle on Netware being more    unstable than its UNIX counterparts is just that, crap.    

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Wed Oct 05 1994 - 17:45:12 CET