Eva et al, I believe the survivability of a product is based on a number of factors including current market share, depth and availability of skills in the marketplace (this translates to product momentum), availability (and ease) of upgrades for newer and better features in new versions (catching up with ya!), availability of choice-of-platform (I can choose the better, lower-cost platform and am not locked in to one h/w vendor), availability of third-party packages as well as add-on packages that can be plugged on to cater to areas that are not addressed in the base product (e.g. ERP products, monitoring tools, etc.), financial ability and sustainability of the company, depth and breadth of products, effort required to move off the product, *apart* from base cost (what it costs to buy), total cost of ownership (what it costs to run, including staff costs, server licences, etc.) . If you look at the products that have 'died', it is because they lacked one or more of these factors when compared to another similar product that survived. In this case, they did a natural death. In some cases, they were also taken over by another competitor and be 'put to death' (as with IBM/Informix). I don't think that neither Oracle nor MS is at that place. Although MS is available only on M$ platforms, they have a very large base that will carry them along for a while. I believe that Oracle will survive at least in the ERP areas as they are actively increasing their base in this area at the cost of SAP and other packages, and it is difficult to knock off a working ERP application that is entrenced with the bean-counters. John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002
Wanna know the reason for the season? Click on ' http://www.needhim.org' <http://www.needhim.org'/> ** The opinions and statements above are entirely my own and not those of my employer or clients ** -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 6:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Folks, Wonder if anyone would like to comment, my MSSQL DBA sent me a couple of emails from a MSSQL mailing list, they were discussing the future of MSSQL. Some of the comments included comments about our DB - Oracle. I've added two here... ...With Hyperion been seriously challenged and overrun by Analysis Services, oracle will completely die out as they integrate their current offering into Oracle9i. .... ...Oracle will become another Apple: 5% market share. ... Do you guys agree? Is Oracle doing anything about the very serious threat that MSSQL is placing on their market share? No, plans of changing personally, but wondering if cross education won't be beneficial:) Regards Denham _____ This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal - For more information please visit <http://www.marshalsoftware.com> www.marshalsoftware.com _____ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Kanagaraj INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
