RE: Oracle Future???

From: Mark Leith <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 07:27:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E9885.20020108065552@fatcity.com>

Cross
education is always a benefit - in moderation. What I mean to say is that you will be far more marketable with knowledge of multiple relational databases, but it may be more beneficial for you to have more of a focus on the market leading RDBMS - Oracle. The below comments seem to be a little over the top for my liking - I *DON'T* see Oracle only having 5% of the market share in the near future, as quite frankly the rest of the databases out there simply are not up to to scratch in terms of there data processing and storage capabilities in large multi-user environments.

Oracle
doesn't even really see MSSQL as a major competitor - they view DB2 as their evil enemy!

HTH

Mark

Oracle
& SQLServer database mop and bucket man. (OSDMBM)

-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Denham EvaSent: 08 January 2002 14:25To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle Future???
 Hi Folks,
 Wonder if anyone would like to comment, my MSSQL DBA sent me a couple of emails from a MSSQL mailing list, they were discussing the future of MSSQL.
 Some of the comments included comments about our DB - Oracle. I've added
 two here...
 ...With Hyperion been seriously challenged and overrun by Analysis Services, oracle will completely die out as they integrate their current offering into Oracle9i. .... ...Oracle will become another Apple: 5% market share. ...
 Do you guys agree? Is Oracle doing anything about the very serious threat that MSSQL is placing on their market share?

No, plans of changing personally, but wondering if cross education won't be beneficial:) Regards Denham

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