>
Eating their lunch from behind, aren't they? Doesn't Oracle still have a dominant market share? >
>Read that one in the New Yorker as well? <s>
>
>Mike, there are growing instances where SQL project teams have been created in both the health care and military/depot areas - these are areas where Oracle previously enjoyed a strong advantage. That is starting to tilt the other way. No, it's not an overnight change, but there's no question that the improvements in 2008, 2008R2, and the promises of 2008R2 Parallel Data Warehouse are putting SQL in a postion of knocking out Oracle in the vendor selection process. There are plenty of verifiable case studies out there.
It seems like there have been predictions of it tilting the other way for some time. Maybe it will eventually happen, who knows. It hasn't happened yet. This is overall market share, not anecdotal case studies.
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/number-one-database-069037.htmlPS -- The New Yorker? Hardly. It is not a magazine for gearheads.
