I'd like to thank everyone for giving such helpful and detailed
responses;
it's the sort of thing that shows me how good the support here can be!
I did want to address some things that may not have been clear enough
in my original message. When I said "not speed" I didn't mean that speed
wasn't
A company I work with is in the process of upgrading its databases from
some
motheaten system to something current. My impression is that they
want to go with Oracle, and I'm not sure if this is based on anything
other than being impressed with the size and presumed quality support
of Oracle. I'