RE: OT -- MS SQL Server is putting Oracle to shame,

From: Bowes, Chris <Chris.Bowes_at_kosa.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:18:00 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0036A397.20010814112140@fatcity.com>

True, but one line he had that was truthful was "Our database business is one of the best places you could wish to be right now". I know of a lot of people changing from Oracle to Sqlserver. We are. As Lisa Koivu put it, I'm slipping to the Dark Side (but my heart will always be Oracle so I can come back to the light). My CIO, like a lot of them, has the sqlserver bug and has ordered all projects rewritten in vb/sqlserver company wide. In the next few years/decades Oracle and Sqlserver will be bumping each other like crazy. There will be truck loads of cash to be made in migrations from one to the other (and then back probably). And I'm not talking those piddly S-10 or 4x4 sized trucks. We're talking the megaton sized gravel trucks or maybe even C10 plane sized... I welcome the sqlserver challenge. Bring it on M$soft. The more they and Oracle fight, the more money/job security we can have.

--Chris

Chris.Bowes_at_Kosa.com

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From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:18 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:OT -- MS SQL Server is putting Oracle to shame,

Patrice,

Thanks for the message, we all over here had one heck of a good laugh. It just shows that MS is still running around with there heads in the ground and phony sales figures. Bet you did not know that every one who buys Windows Server gets a SQL*server license right along with it. It's a built in. And we're looking at migrating from Windows as our network server to Red Hat along with some others I know, and a couple of VERY big players who have. Why, because it's cheaper to run Red Hat than Windows in both terms of hardware and software. Sure we'll keep Windows on the desk top, but it's likely out of here in the computer room.

BTW: since MS has been declared a monopoly, and that portion of the anti-trust suit has been affirmed, a break up of MS is still in the cards so some of those statements about not porting may have to be retracted. OH also, watch out when someone, even Oracle, starts throwing bench marks around, they all lie.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Boivin; Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> Date: 8/14/2001 8:21 AM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/21003.html>

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
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