>>NASA DB is 700TB and is powered by SQLServer2000
>>Bank of NewYork hase 5000 users of SQLServer
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>>HTH
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>Really? Didn't know that...
>My brother, that lives in Paris, has a very peculiar job: he is kind of a "deal closer" for Oracle. What he does specifically is build multi-TB databases and benchmark complex queries/heavy load. He proves that SQL Server breaks ( he calls it a toy btw ), shows that db2 is too slow to be usable in those cases and that Oracle shines, which gets them the deal ( that's multi-million dollars deals generally ). I know for instance that lately, all banks in Turkey are moving from SQL Server to Oracle. Same goes about France Telecom...

In the same moment we win BDF :-)
He is real competition. And may be guys who develop applications do not optimize them or try to put dataaccess and processing in application than in SQLServer and that creates problems.
The new wave is multy bank e-bank platform done by Indians - Flex-Cube. It is e-bank application and from day to day become more popular. It is based on MS technologies.
Have a nice day