Oracle Contracting and rates

[Moscow Mule]

Why you'd want to use a database that needs an administrator for its day to day running is beyond me.

[DBA_bloke]

Why you'd want to use a database that needs an administrator for its day to day running is beyond me.

Name one RDBMS that doesn't require maintenance? You have a year to come up with one. See you then.

[Moscow Mule]

Name one RDBMS that doesn't require maintenance? You have a year to come up with one. See you then.

iSeries. Will run forever. You might need Milan to change the tapes ever so often (less so if you invest in a silo).

[Fishface]

Not in the Oracle world. Oracle is the Aston Martin of the software world. Everything can be bespoke and wonderful, if you think that £1K for platinum ciggy lighter or bit of carbon fibre on the air-vent is a fair price.

Why companies use Oracle with it's astounding fees is beyond me, when there are alternatives at a fraction of the cost now.

I agree, most companies don't need it and fail to understand the concept of appropriate technologies.

Its the 'Oracle' word... - business guys get all hot under the collar - IT guys get their dicks out, do helicopteros and start teabagging each other - with a bit of tech talk for foreplay - its hideous to watch.

more women in IT please - I can't stand all the techy/macho posturing

[DBA_bloke]

iSeries. Will run forever. You might need Milan to change the tapes ever so often (less so if you invest in a silo).

You are confusing a platform with an RDBMS. However, the iSeries (or, as I still call it, the AS/400) is a thing of beauty and I will never understand why IBM didn't advertise it properly. It's a bloomin' miracle platform. If IBM had bothered to advertise it, then a) Everyone would be using it and b) Oracle would port their stuff across to it, as would everyone else.

[DBA_bloke]

I agree, most companies don't need it and fail to understand the concept of appropriate technologies.

Its the 'Oracle' word... - business guys get all hot under the collar - IT guys get their dicks out, do helicopteros and start teabagging each other - with a bit of tech talk for foreplay - its hideous to watch.

more women in IT please - I can't stand all the techy/macho posturing

It isn't posturing. Oracle is the best. Women in IT? Who'd cook our dinners and wash our clothes? I'm all for a bit of Womens' Lib.: as long as the ironing gets done, where's the harm?

[Moscow Mule]

You are confusing a platform with an RDBMS.

Only because I didn't know where to pitch my comeback

If you say DB2 to somebody with no idea, they immediate assume you want to run it on an x86 box.

[DBA_bloke]

Only because I didn't know where to pitch my comeback

If you say DB2 to somebody with no idea, they immediate assume you want to run it on an x86 box.

I see. DB2 is good, no question, but owing to it being a bit of a niche market, it's never going to get the sort of investment that Oracle or SQL Server does. Shame, because IBM's stuff is usually excellent. They just don't have a clue about selling their wares.

[mace]

I see. DB2 is good, no question, but owing to it being a bit of a niche market, it's never going to get the sort of investment that Oracle or SQL Server does. Shame, because IBM's stuff is usually excellent. They just don't have a clue about selling their wares.

I'd agree with you on that. My perception of the database market is:-

Oracle dominant on unix/linux platforms but losing market share to DB2 and specialist vendors on unix and to SQL*Server on windows.

DB2 on unix/linux/windows beginning to make some noise. Dominant on mainframe and as/400.

SQL*Server is dominant on windows platforms and seems to be the database of choice for data marts.

Teradata/Netezza/Datallegro etc. specialist warehouse appliance vendors.

Database vendors market share seem much more evenly spread in data warehousing than in the transactional database arena.

[MobileCheese]

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