Re: Database market is saturated fully, there is no more room!!
Posted in 1998
Topics: Performance & Tuning, Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Licensing & Editions, Platform-Specific Issues
If LINUX doesn't support Oracle, then why even send it to this newsgroup ?? When Oracle decides to put Oracle onto LINUX, then and only then will I consider it valid. Until then, let the web-heads have it. I'm at 1.5 terabytes and screaming !!!!! Alan V. William Backs wrote in message <34EA0A00.7DDB44F2@sobek.com>... >Why is it that the only way these Linux people can push their product is through >complete fabrication and total falsehood? Can't the product stand up to real >analysis and facts? If you have to lie to make your point, then the point isn't >worth making. >If 'atomboy' is a sample of the kind of individual that uses this environment, then I >think I'll stay as far away from it as I can. > >atomboy@bcl.com wrote: > >> Very soon, market will be flooded with database vendors. > >The number of database vendors is expected to fall as the market consolidates. Meta, >Giga, etc. all agree on this point. > >> More competition means tougher time ahead for vendors, but it is better >> for customers. So there will rough road for oracle,sybase, informix in >> the >> near future!! > >Why can't people write English? Is it too hard to capitalize proper nouns? I think >this lazy approach to communication is indicative of the lazy approach to rational >thought exhibited in the note. > >> Bigger market share will be ONLY on Intel based systems, > >Last year the amount of data stored in mainframe databases grew by a larger amount >than in any previous year. Even licenses of DB2 grew by 7% in the MVS world. I am >sure the same can be said of the UNIX world, but I don't have the numbers in front of >me. > >> 32 bit and intel 64bit cpu (upcoming merced chip). > >The Merced chip will run RISC systems. That is the whole point. Both HP and Sun >will be using it. To run Linux? I think not. > >> Today Intel platform >> is completely >> dominated by LINUX. > >I have a question for 'atomboy'. What color is the sky on your planet? > >> The main operating systems >> for databases in this area will be - >> 1. Linux - Awarded best network operating system >> beating the NT, SCO. It is the fastest OS on the >> intel platform today. In performance tests (multi-processors) it >> scaled >> better than NT (see article on redhat site). >> 2. NT - Because of marketing muscle power of M$. (technically >> a bad OS compared to LINUX (unix)). >> NT is specially made by M$ where in ONLY MS SQL server will >> run >> very efficiently and others like oracle, sybase WILL NOT perform well. > >Today Oracle has roughly the same installed base on NT as SQL Server. It performs as >good as if not better than SQL Server in all aspects. Look at the published TCP C >and D numbers. The statement above is patently false, as anyone who bothers to look >can tell.-- >Bill Backs >Sobek Consulting > > >