RE: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise limitations in general - OT

  doubt that Oracle lowered the price on it's RDBMS for mid to small sized shops simply because of SQL*Server. Face it an open source system of PostGreSQL or MySql is cheaper than SQL*Server. No Oracle's Platinum price is too expensive for a lot of people, which is why they cut the price tag. Problem is that they didn't cut it enough.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----

From: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net [mailto:ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net]=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:56 AM To: lex.de.haan_at_naturaljoin.nl; VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com; 'ORACLE-L' Cc: Lex de Haan
Subject: RE: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise limitations in general - OT

There appear to be some very large OLTPs running sql server. Someone posted a link to a list of the largest databases in the world and several of them run on SQL Server. I have not used it, but I have been told it improved alot in the last two years. This might explain why oracle is lowering the prices for small to mid-level shops that threaten to go to sql server...=20

--

http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
--

http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 10:22:54 CST