>I'm not a BI expert, but everyone can see the sun. Microsoft's BI tools are cheap and small and mid-size companies use Microsoft's tools just for that. Xcelsius is not a big part of BI but just say me a Microsoft tool instead for Xcelsius?
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>One of the larger companies (Arcelik) in your home country moved a 5 terabyte Oracle database running under SAP to the Microsoft BI stack.

I think so MS tells that story all MVP's. Cetin was said that when an Oracle - MS-SQL discussion... :)

Arcelik produces cheap white goods. It seem they buy cheap goods at the same time... :)

Arcelik is just one sample and MS workers tell us that sample everytime. Our big companies use Oracle for database and usually use Sun Solaris for servers, Arcelik is just an exception.