Re: How to compare Oracle server with MS SQL server

Please conduct your marketing of MS products through the official channels.

Apart from the wild and unsubstantiated assertions which are common in much of MS marketing, the real push over the edge was the completely out of context quote about TPC.

This is classic Marketing Manager (MS) to Pointy-Haired Manager marketing.

The only people that are taken in by it are the Pointy-Haired Managers. This leads them to try SQL Server, then to fail, then to lose their jobs or at least respect, then ultimately the company turns to a PROPER company selling RDBMSes. Been there, seen that, (laughed) and bought the tea-shirt.

Its actually quite amusing to think that someone naively thinks that this kind of marketing actually still works.

Astrotufers like you failed in the past to influence the Department of Justice through fake letters to newspapers supposedly from just ordinary people.

Why do yo now think that you can exert influence over the buying decisions of managers (by influencing opinions of newsgroup users first)?

The truth slowly emerging from MS is beginning to overshadow all the P.R. they've ever paid for.

By the way, how many Venture Capitalists will still take seriously the notion of using MS products to run a website?

How many "large e-commerce sites" would trust MS now that MS has been exposed for having put a back-door in IIS (FPS) - a backdoor which is supposed to have existed for 3-4 years?

Anyone who ever told their pointy-haired manager that they should use NT / IIS / FPS is now (through no direct fault of their own) personally embarassed courtsey of MS.

You just know that responsible vendors of software are more mature as organistations and in general have a more professional approach to things. This is evidenced ultimatley in the quality of their products.

With the average age of the typical MS coder - I wouldn't want to trust their software in even 95% availability situations.

Been to www.netcraft.com recently?

Microsoft's penetration of the web-server market has well and truly levelled-off.

20% or whatever it is today is abysmal given that on every single installation of NT Server 4.0 the default is to install IIS anyway!!

So with countless thousands of NT boxes around there, with ISS installed simply because the person thought "Oh may as well go and install this IIS" the market penetration is only 1/3 of Apache and holding (which runs on NT and Unix).

Coupled with the fact that until recently, the only way anyone could run a website was on totally unscalable NT.

To all the non-MS believers out there - Happy Easter!

David P.

Oracle Certified DBA.

>David Goldstien .... had a dream - I'll spare you the detauls.
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> David F. Goldstien :: Chip Design & System Programming, S.F. CA
Received on Sun Apr 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT