I have to agree. I am a DBA with a Data warehouse company in Phoenix. Our Databases (and we have lots of 'um) are 24 x 7 and average between 4 to 7 TB (We have some that are even bigger too) This is not the sort of thing that you do not do on Access. And I don't know anyone who particularly enjoys doing something like this with SQLServer. We are using Oracle and DB2 as well, and the reliability is proven. That is the simple fact. The bad thing is that good 'ol Larry E. knows it, and he has us by the short hairs when is comes down to pricing.
On the negative side, Oracle may made a good RDBMS, Oracle world support sucks ass. It has been rare that I have ever been able to get any useful assistance from them.
I am very interested in how Linux will play in the Database world in the next few years. I believe that Linux is a great platform to run a database server. After all, why would you want to pay for OS cost and licenses when 90% of the work that the server is doing is at the database level? SuSe a great deal in trying to latch on to this. They are really trying to push the open source OS as a database server. As well they should. Red Hat seemed to for a time, but seems to have let it go a bit. I am interested in seeing what has been the experience of running production Oracle/DB2 DB on Linux. This is one area where it can stomp all over NT. With NT you not only have the extra cost of the OS, but also a lower uptimes. That is not acceptable for a database server. Frankly, DBA's have enough to do with out the OS kicking the legs out from under the Database.
I have not tried DB2 on Linux, However I have with Oracle. Version 8.0.5 was pretty good, however 8.1.5 was pure SHIT! Even Oracle Corp. seems to think so. Fortunately, Oracle did fix allot of those problems in version 8.1.6. They had to...
Its only 7:30 am and I have already gone the whole span of emotions that I am capable of experiencing.... (mildly amused to REALLY REALLY PISSED)...
The day starts our with a health dose of/. Just like any other morning. I find an article called "Ballmer: Linux Is Top Threat To Windows". I click on this and begin to read. It makes Michael midly amused. See link:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010110S0006
I should say that at least MOST of the article makes me happy. Except for one thing. There is mention that Corel might be announcing that they are dumping their linux line. Remember that money that was invested in Corel by M$. This also leads me to another article:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/INV20001117S0005
Now let's be realistic. I don't think that anyone will argue that the loss of the Corel Linux distro will be of any big loss to anyone. However Corel is not an OS company. (Duh) They are an applications company. And frankly, I was very happy to see a mainstream (although one with less market share) app company create apps for linux that really have been pretty good! WordPerfect for linux for example is a favorite among many linux users. (Like me) And that applications base was growing. Applications that had the same basic look and feel of the Windows counterparts. The same features. The same file formats with out converters or filters. If linux is going to succeed, their will need to be more apps like this!!!
I have always felt that the Mac's biggest problem was a lack of such applications. Now it looks like M$ is going to buy the same problem for the Linux OS. If Corel wants to dump its os... Fine... I doubt any one will miss it. But I sure hope that they stay the course with the applications. (As well as other companies following suite.)
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I have to agree. I am a DBA with a Data warehouse company in Phoenix. Our Databases (and we have lots of 'um) are 24 x 7 and average between 4 to 7 TB (We have some that are even bigger too) This is not the sort of thing that you do not do on Access. And I don't know anyone who particularly enjoys doing something like this with SQLServer. We are using Oracle and DB2 as well, and the reliability is proven. That is the simple fact. The bad thing is that good 'ol Larry E. knows it, and he has us by the short hairs when is comes down to pricing. On the negative side, Oracle may made a good RDBMS, Oracle world support sucks ass. It has been rare that I have ever been able to get any useful assistance from them. I am very interested in how Linux will play in the Database world in the next few years. I believe that Linux is a great platform to run a database server. After all, why would you want to pay for OS cost and licenses when 90% of the work that the server is doing is at the database level? SuSe a great deal in trying to latch on to this. They are really trying to push the open source OS as a database server. As well they should. Red Hat seemed to for a time, but seems to have let it go a bit. I am interested in seeing what has been the experience of running production Oracle/DB2 DB on Linux. This is one area where it can stomp all over NT. With NT you not only have the extra cost of the OS, but also a lower uptimes. That is not acceptable for a database server. Frankly, DBA's have enough to do with out the OS kicking the legs out from under the Database. I have not tried DB2 on Linux, However I have with Oracle. Version 8.0.5 was pretty good, however 8.1.5 was pure SHIT! Even Oracle Corp. seems to think so. Fortunately, Oracle did fix allot of those problems in version 8.1.6. They had to...
Its only 7:30 am and I have already gone the whole span of emotions that I am capable of experiencing.... (mildly amused to REALLY REALLY PISSED)... The day starts our with a health dose of /. Just like any other morning. I find an article called "Ballmer: Linux Is Top Threat To Windows". I click on this and begin to read. It makes Michael midly amused. See link:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010110S0006
I should say that at least MOST of the article makes me happy. Except for one thing. There is mention that Corel might be announcing that they are dumping their linux line. Remember that money that was invested in Corel by M$. This also leads me to another article:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/INV20001117S0005
Now let's be realistic. I don't think that anyone will argue that the loss of the Corel Linux distro will be of any big loss to anyone. However Corel is not an OS company. (Duh) They are an applications company. And frankly, I was very happy to see a mainstream (although one with less market share) app company create apps for linux that really have been pretty good! WordPerfect for linux for example is a favorite among many linux users. (Like me) And that applications base was growing. Applications that had the same basic look and feel of the Windows counterparts. The same features. The same file formats with out converters or filters. If linux is going to succeed, their will need to be more apps like this!!!
I have always felt that the Mac's biggest problem was a lack of such applications. Now it looks like M$ is going to buy the same problem for the Linux OS. If Corel wants to dump its os... Fine... I doubt any one will miss it. But I sure hope that they stay the course with the applications. (As well as other companies following suite.)