Title: RE: Microsoft VS Oracle (again)
Well, I'll be a little more forgiving than Raj has
been. Basically MicroSoft is just the "pot calling the kettle
black".
On the issue of price, well yes MicroSoft does have an
edge, but that's just how they've eliminated all of their other competition over
the years. The product does not cost less than Oracle or DB2, it's just
that MicroSoft can leverage the tremendous amounts of cash they have to offset
the giveaway they're into. I believe that was one of the points of the
Antitrust suit they were embroiled in.
On RAC they really have a long way to
go. If you want to do a federated database setup like MicroSoft
states, just buy standard edition Oracle licenses & toss in a pile of
database links. Works the same way & you don't have to pay extra for
it. The whole idea of RAC is that when one node dies, for whatever reason,
the data that node was hosting is not offline till you get it repaired. And
actually you really do not need to do anything to your application to take
advantage of RAC, except adjust your error handling to understand that a
transaction needed to be resubmitted.
Overall I think MicroSoft's Achilles heel is Windows.
Their a one OS horse. Oracle is a multi OS horse that runs the same whatever the
platform. And BTW, Oracle runs RAC on Red Hat without any additional
software, never mind that it runs on Linux in the first place. Similar
things can also be said for DB2, Sybase, and Informix. When, if ever,
Microsoft has a version of Sql*Server that runs as multiple independent
processes on Linux then I'll give them a second look. As long as their a
single multi-threaded Windows only process they can stay in Redmond. Also,
yes they are the "fastest growing" database on the market, take a look at that
copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server you've got. There's a copy of
Sql*Server 2000 in there, and you can't uninstall it. Billy G is still up
to his old tricks. The only solution to MicroSoft is forced
divestiture. Too bad that judge could not stand up to King
George.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
Aargh ...
you must be very brave telling a Oracle cult to move to SQL
Server ...
How do we know you are not Billy G using an alias ...
8>)
Raj
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriel
Aragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:
Microsoft VS Oracle (again)
FYI
One of my friends at Microsoft, (yes I must to
confess, I have friends at MS) gave me a "present",
it's a 4 cd's kit called "SQL Server 2000 for the
Oracle Customer", the kit consist in 4 cd's with
demos, docs, presentations, videos and a lot of stuff
showing why sql server is a better option as a DB
instead oracle, contains price lists, performance
evaluation and many other "information", maybe you'd
like to spend some of your time giving Billy a chance
to defend his product. The 4 cd's are available
(almost completely) as links in:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/oraclekit
Any comments?
Gabriel
