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   From: datagoob@hotmail.com   
      
   I remain jealous of you Daniel for having access to really good weed!  It seems   
   to have the intended effect.  Must be that stuff from Vancouver I heard about.   
      
   Anyway since you opened the door...   
      
   DB2 is far less difficult to understand and master than Oracle.  More   
   specifically   
   Oracle is the difficult database, whereas DB2 is a breeze to install and use.   
      
   Oracle is a collection of disparate pieces of bolt-on software that requires   
   years   
   to "master" and lots of people to make it successful.  This is why it is happy   
   in larger organizations and completely inappropriate in smaller ones.  DB2   
   has a clearly defined scalability that Oracle has yet to implement.  Instead   
   Oracle continues to opt for smoke and mirrors.  10g has yet to be proven in   
   the business world as even relevant, much less RAC ( bwaahahaaaa! :-)  I would   
   say DB2 and SQL-Server are more equivalent in ease of use, but the   
   differentiator   
   in DB2 is that it can scale way beyond what SQL-Server can, on low-cost   
   hardware,   
   and O/S.  Oracle requires a lot of money, time, and hardware, something I would   
   be very concerned about as a business wanting to be competitive and keep costs   
   down.  Of course if money is no issue, go for Oracle, it will increase Larry's   
   wallet and decrease your own.   Ford Motor by the way recently decided that   
   using   
   Oracle was a good learning experience, but not suitable for their business   
   after   
   what, 5 years of dicking around with it.  ( See Eweek )   
      
      
   Daniel Morgan wrote:   
      
   > Data Goob wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the book they mention that Oracle is more about applications than the   
   >> database.   
   >   
   >   
   > And this is a surprise to you? Where have you been hiding?   
   >   
   >> Certainly the grid is   
   >> interesting, but it is not necessarily clustering, nor is it really even   
   >> applicable to a lot of business requirements.  Oracle will be a big nut   
   >> to crack in an organization that has never used a relational database.   
   >   
   >   
   > Cracking Oracle and cracking DB2 are of equivalent difficulty. But your   
   > comments about "grid" and "clustering" in the same sentence demonstrate   
   > a lack of understanding about what "grid" means to Oracle.   
   >   
      
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