Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Fri Feb 7 12:21:00 CST 2003
IME MS is a long way from swallowing Oracle. The big players will stick to Oracle to the end, not least because by now they have invested a large number of dollars in java sprocs, which are portable nowhere else (yet). In addition, the two fastest dbs around are Oracle and MySQL. Both also run on the biggest hardware you have. SQL 2000 doesn't. Maybe some sequel will, but at the moment if you run SQL 2000 it's on a Win server. Besides all this, there is trusted Oracle, the kind of thing that banks buy. They are not going to switch easily. I'm no champion of Oracle or anything, although I do love several of its qualities, but that's beside the point. The culture in Oracle houses will persist for a long time, no matter what MS does, methinks. A. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tom Adams Sent: February 7, 2003 12:55 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Yee Haw.... You think price might come into the equation? What's the number one motivation for the growth of *Nix? Say $5,000 per processor for Sql Server vs. $0 for PostGreSql? Don't have the number for Windows 2000 Server vs. *Nix but sure they're comparable. Dare we price the coming .Net server without getting a nosebleed? Tom (We won't even mention security!) Adams Ever see the picture of a little fish, about to be swallowed by a bigger fish, about to be swallowed by an even bigger fish, ... several move layers? In todays *Nix wars it's the reverse ... M$ is about to swallow Oracle in the Sql Databases area, *Nix is about to swallow M$ in the Server operating systems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Barabash" <BBarabash at TappeConstruction.com> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Yee Haw.... > Well actually yes: > http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/ > (but it ain't cheap!) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Adams [mailto:tomadatn at bellsouth.net] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:01 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Yee Haw.... > > > Oh. So ASP runs on *Nix now? > > Tom (As the operating system goes, so goes the programming language.) Adams > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com> > To: <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:43 PM > Subject: [AccessD] OT: Yee Haw.... > > > > Just wrote my first PHP page...... > > > > Okay...I'm sticking with ASP thankyou! <VBG> > > > > Drew > > _______________________________________________ > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com