Re: db2 vs oracle

Data Goob wrote:

> I remain jealous of you Daniel for having access to really good weed!
> It seems
> to have the intended effect. Must be that stuff from Vancouver I heard
> about.

I'm about 40 years too old to care what they smoke anywhere.

> Anyway since you opened the door...
>
> DB2 is far less difficult to understand and master than Oracle. More
> specifically Oracle is the difficult database, whereas DB2 is a breeze to install and
> use.

And you say that based on exactly what experience, how long ago, on what versions based on what training? This sentence is meaningless and you know it.

> Oracle is a collection of disparate pieces of bolt-on software that
> requires years
> to "master" and lots of people to make it successful.

If you think others are smoking something surely you are injecting something. What a load of pure rubbish.

   This is why it is
> happy
> in larger organizations and completely inappropriate in smaller ones. DB2
> has a clearly defined scalability that Oracle has yet to implement.

Which of course explains why it undersells Oracle on Windows and Linux.

> Instead
> Oracle continues to opt for smoke and mirrors.

Well that and sales.

  10g has yet to be proven in
> the business world as even relevant, much less RAC ( bwaahahaaaa! :-)

Laugh. Thelargest airplane manufacturing company in America is implementing production systems with RAC for line-of-business apps. DB2? I'm sure there a few legacy systems laying around. So what exactly are you laughing about?

   I
> would
> say DB2 and SQL-Server are more equivalent in ease of use, but the
> differentiator
> in DB2 is that it can scale way beyond what SQL-Server can, on low-cost
> hardware,
> and O/S.

I would say you haven't actually used Oracle in years and are expressing not technical knowledge but personal ignorance.

   Oracle requires a lot of money, time, and hardware, something
> I would
> be very concerned about as a business wanting to be competitive and keep
> costs
> down.

Oracle licensing starts at $749 (SE1 5 named user license). Take the needle out of your arm and go to http://store.oracle.com where you can confirm it if you wish.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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