Re: The future of Oracle Vs MS SQL and DB2

Stick with SQL Server, indeed it is dark days ahead for us Oracle DBA's. If the marketshare continues to slide I'll be getting out of the database field, perhaps even the IT field for sure, as many other Oracle DBA's will I'm sure.

Don't be surprised at all if in the near future you order a latte from your favorite starbucks and you hear the waiter yell something like:

"select tall_latte, milk*.10, foam*2
where sugar is null"

Jill
XOCPDBA, SBCS, FUBAR+B "SQLJoe" <sqljoe_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:20020514161736.11762.00017419_at_mb-mq.aol.com...
> Hello everyone, I would like to get your opinions on the future of Oracle
> database. Recently, studies have indicates that Oracle is losing
marketshare
> both in Unix and Windows platform. Furthermore, Sun Microsystem, which was
the
> favorite platform of Oracle, is going downhill (there are many in the Unix
> world who believe Sun's glory days are gone).
>
> I am seriously considering learning Oracle after working five years as a
MS SQL
> DBA. How does the future of Oracle look like? Will it continue to lose
> marketshare? What do you project its marketshare to be (from current 34%)
five
> years from now?
>
> Joe
> MCDBA, MCSD, MCSE+I
Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 16:17:36 CDT