Oracle-L: Re:MS SQL hasn't given up!

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:03:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055C365.20030227140352@fatcity.com>

I don't believe MS will ever give up. Isn't that part of American Capitalism? Your competitor does you one better on some test, therefore you've got to better them. Give Oracle a couple of weeks and we'll here that one too.

But seriously, how many of us really care about the TP-C benchmark? It's great for marketing and the sales droids but how do I relate that to the business needs of where I'm working? Great, we can push the database to 400K+ transactions per second, wow. Now if I could just get those 300 testers on the floor to take advantage of that when their tests are 5 minutes long!! Somehow the capabilities of the server/database combination has gotten SOO big that it can't be filled anymore or so the users think when they release the query from hell.

BTW: As I look down the road to the future, I wonder how much of the commercial software industry is going to survive the wave of open source stuff coming down the pipe? Here I am, today, sitting at a MS Win2K desktop with Oracle running on the database server. A couple of years down the road I can see a Linux, or some derivative of it, as the desktop and PostgreSql on the database server. Processing data will still have to happen and relational data will still be around, but will MS and Oracle?? Damn good question I'd have to say.

/* rant mode off, cool mode on */

Dick Goulet

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Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date:       2/27/2003 11:26 AM

For your amusement, MS thinks they can "now" equal Oracle in performance (wasn't that what they claimed 3 years ago?). Anyway, I tend to think of these benchmarks like the NASCAR winners. Yeah I'm going to go by a Chrysler because it won the NASCAR championship.

http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707 <http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707>

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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