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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Pro's & Con's on Oracle & SQL Svr?
Wayne,
No disagreements until the end :-)
> On the other hand, if you can make MS SQL server run faster than 1/3 of
the
> speed of Oracle you can get a million dollars! (go to
> http://www.oracle.com).
Look at the fine print of the offer. There's a number of very debateable issues, not the least of which is that Oracle can impose conditions (hardware and consulting services) that the challenger must completely bear the cost of, and that can easily exceed a million dollars ... but the one that is most interesting is: even if Oracle loses the challenge, and has to pay a million dollars, the customer can not publicize the fact.
To my ears, sure doesn't sound like Oracle has a lot of confidence in its own product. Instead it sounds like Oracle Marketing is very adept at creating impressive but hollow challenges.
Bottom line, as I stated originally: both Oracle and SQL Server are excellent products, and both are enterprise level databases. Preferences for one or the other, tend to boil down to familiarity with one or the other.
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