Re: Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server

From: Jeremy Rickard <Jeremy_at_jbdr.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/06/20
Message-ID: <WYvZxTAWFtqzEwWt@jbdr.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <866800866.19008_at_dejanews.com>, Govert van Drimmelen <govert_at_icon.co.za> writes

>DB2 on NT has had very good reviews though. IBM is comitted to develop
>all their (non O/S) software for NT as well. It seems as if IBM has
>realized that integration with NT has great advantages, is isn't only
>porting their software to NT, but really using the OS. They might well
>turn out to be the only viable competition againt MS BackOffice.

Yes, I'm sure they are totally serious about NT. Not too sure about your final comment though!

>Martin Verta made a good point in the corresponding thread in
>comp.databases.ms-sqlserver: "Anyway, I think it's great that the RDBMS
>market is so competitive. It's hard to make a wrong choice no matter what
>vendor you go with."

Indeed.

-- 
Jeremy Rickard

Received on Fri Jun 20 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT