"People that think Oracle "technology" is great really haven't used
other products or
other architectures"
In the past 20 years I worked with DB2, Rdb, SQL Server and now Oracle.
I can tell you that Oracle is the clear winner for many reasons, the
main reasons in our case are:
- Scalability.
- Availability.
- Multi-platform.
- Read consistency.
- Row level locking.
- Built-in functionalities.
- Transparent partition.
- PL/SQL
Rdb and DB2 were the closest to Oracle and SQL Server the worst by far.
We have Oracle running on HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Windows 2000
without any problem or incompatibility. We serve thousands of users
around the World with many applications, tools, technologies, etc. I
work with Oracle since 1994 and I never made any training, I learned
all mainly from the Oracle manuals, Technet, forums like this, etc.
Also, when you buy a database you need to take in consideration
available documentation, skills, developers, knowledge, best practices,
country, support, etc. Price is important of course but it must be
weighted with all the above factors. We never bought Oracle because we
"liked" it. The database is the most important component of any
application, it is where the information is managed and stored.
Remember, we are IT/IS professionals, (Information...).
Received on Tue Nov 29 2005 - 11:41:26 CST
