Re: DB2 is better than Oracle

IBM vs. Oracle: It Could Get Bloody

http://www.businessweek.com/reprints/01-22/b3734104.htm

30 Jun 2001 01:11:07 -0700 Sam Talebbeik <sam777t_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> DSAsteve,
>
> A good samarithan posted the following useful article
> a couple of weeks back. This article
> does not answer the black and white question that you
> asked "Is DB2 better or Oracle", but it provides some
> useful information. Here is the link:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/815/database.htm
>
> If you found a very good comparison then let all of us
> know. Your question is a good one. It is a difficult question to
> answer. It is hard to find good comparison papres in public domain.
> Your question comes up all the time and will be asked again and again
> in the next few years since for enterprise class databases the
> field has been narrowed down to the two players IBM and Oracle.
>
> A good place to start is to define what you want the database to do
> best, what features are important, what type of applications should
> the database support, what is important to the CIO or the managers
> who are making the buy decision.
>
> This is a good approach to narrow down the question and focus on what
> is really important to your project and yur organization.
>
> Regards,
> Sam
>
> DSAsteve_at_aol.com (swp) wrote in message news:<a59bd1d2.0106260455.2eb7b8d5_at_posting.google.com>...

>> DB2 is better than Oracle.
>> 
>> Think otherwise?  Prove me wrong.

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