RE: Oracle Future???

Hmm,
strange this one. This is like the age old NT and UNIX argument.
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Many
years ago now I was working on UNIX and Ingres
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class=593212015-08012002>Progressed to UNIX, Ingres,Oracle and DB26000 (wow !! a blast from the past). At about this time I heard that NT was to push UNIX out into the wilderness and UNIX would become obsolete.
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Ingres
fell by the wayside after the CA takeover and DB26000 went the same way and I was left with UNIX and Oracle.
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I then
moved to Unix, Oracle and Informix.
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class=593212015-08012002>Informix dropped away rapidly - so here I am sitting with UNIX and Oracle almost 10 years from the day that I was told that UNIX would be obsolete.
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class=593212015-08012002>Absolute hogwash in my opinion.
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Our
company also uses MySQL and SQLServer. I will probably get around to mucking about with both but don't expect them to push Oracle away. I'm with Mark the only main threat I've heard is DB2. (and not the crap thing that was DB26000 a while ago unless I'm mistaken).
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class=593212015-08012002>Cheers
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class=593212015-08012002>Lee

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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Mark Leith   [mailto:mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk]Sent: 08 January 2002   14:56To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:   RE: Oracle Future???
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  size=2>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.   <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
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  size=2>Oracle doesn't even really see MSSQL as a major competitor - they view   DB2 as their evil enemy!
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  size=2>Mark
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  size=2>Oracle & SQLServer database mop and bucket man.   (OSDMBM)        <FONT face=Tahoma
    size=2>-----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 <FONT
    face="Courier New" size=2>Denham     

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