Re: Does anyone have serious databases on NT?

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:07:51 GMT, mkx_at_excite.com wrote:

>After reading many, many articles, press releases, and marketing
>propaganda about the fight for the dominant position on NT, I seem to
>see something missing: Any direct evidence that anyone is using the
>major databases on NT (other than Microsoft's SQL Server). Most
>serious (non-mainframe) projects always seem to go on Unix, AS/400,
>etc. I understand why this is - many organizations are hesitant to go
>"Enterprise on NT".
>
>All of the statistics I have seen wrap the UNIX/NT market segments
>together. Thus the "leader in license revenue" may have gotten there
>on UNIX, without selling that much on NT.
>
>I simply am interested in seeing where the major work is being done on
>NT specifically, and if it is done elsewhere than MS SQL.

I'd be curious to know any results you come up with. Interestingly, Oracle sells more on NT than Microsoft does!

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-) Received on Thu Jul 29 1999 - 19:46:45 CDT