Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:44:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1080571438.278258@yasure>

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>

>> Much of the core functionality of Oracle is dependent upon the
>> versioning. Microsoft is attempting to duplicate it to put an end
>> to their inability to complete with everything from RAC on down.
>> At it most basic level ... it is impossible for SQL Server to
>> produce a result set consistent to a point-in-time. Which explains
>> to many, especially those inside Microsoft, why they are running
>> their corporate financials on SAP with Oracle. A huge embarrasement
>> for Ballmer & Co.

>
> Can you actually shore up any of what you just said with some form of
> evidence? SAP is not known to exploit DBMS specific features.
> Given that versioning is not in the SQL Standard I have a very hard time
> believing what you state.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

Prove what? That Microsoft runs its SAP financial package on top of Oracle? Should be simple enough. We both know they aren't running it on SQL Server or Sybase ... so why don't you check on the number of IBM employees working down the street from me in Redmond at their data center. ;-)

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