>>>In my experience, Oracle was more robust and more reliable than anything else I worked with. ...
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>>In Turkey you cannot find a big company uses MS-SQL. All of ours big companies use Oracle. They think about MS-SQL "It's just for small firms, it's just a babytoy".
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>Oracle marketing a la IBM in the 60's and 70's.
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>Oracle is a solid DBMS. Very expensive, difficult to work with, but solid.
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>SQL Server is generally much less expensive, easier to work with, scalable, and solid, but if the Oracle salespeople have done their jobs then SQL Server won't be given a chance.
You have to admit that Oracle is a technically superior product. For if it wasn't then M$ surely would have overtaken it by now as they have just about everything else by charging less.
Regards,
William Chadbourne
Senior Programmer/Analyst
State of Maine - DAFS App Team
Oracle - When you care enough to use the very best!!