Oracle has fast taken a large chunk of the RDBMS market.
But in the recent years, Oracle has been plagued with Microsoft woes.
And the customers have been plagued with empty promises of sales people which the db cannot provide. I still have about 3 TARs that are there in oracle for about 1 year now, no resolution!
While Oracle is ok for the casual user, it does not really pass its own ACID-test. Each time they come out with 'NEW' technology, promised features dont work. And of course if it does not work, then its a feature not a bug. To cite an example, within oracle OPS option, the update from one instance to the other does not happen instantaneously. When the sales person was asked to clarify, his instantaneously was about 4-5 seconds. Unless the dictionary has been rewritten since last, I thought instantaneously ment 'snap' you got it. We needed it to work that way, but oracle 'features' dont allow it. Oracle database's definition of instantaneously is 3 seconds, the amount of time it takes to populate from one running instanc to the other.
Another thing is the maintenance that you pay for. Oracle has forgotten what customer support is all about. When I pay 25% to 50% of your oracle cost each year as maintenance, I would expect them to have a more friendly attitude, coupled with a desire to 'really' help fix problems that customers are facing. But all you get is pathetic bureaucracy. And the replies will make any decent DBA jump out of window. Thankfully my office is in the basement, therefore no windows!
One of the worst part of purchasing oracle is that you cannot access their bug database unless you are on maintenance. Duh! They are your bugs, so why should I pay for getting access to documentation about them?
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Oracle has fast taken a large chunk of the RDBMS market.
But in the recent years, Oracle has been plagued with Microsoft woes.
And the customers have been plagued with empty promises of sales people which the db cannot provide. I still have about 3 TARs that are there in oracle for about 1 year now, no resolution!
While Oracle is ok for the casual user, it does not really pass its own ACID-test. Each time they come out with 'NEW' technology, promised features dont work. And of course if it does not work, then its a feature not a bug. To cite an example, within oracle OPS option, the update from one instance to the other does not happen instantaneously. When the sales person was asked to clarify, his instantaneously was about 4-5 seconds. Unless the dictionary has been rewritten since last, I thought instantaneously ment 'snap' you got it. We needed it to work that way, but oracle 'features' dont allow it. Oracle database's definition of instantaneously is 3 seconds, the amount of time it takes to populate from one running instanc to the other.
Another thing is the maintenance that you pay for. Oracle has forgotten what customer support is all about. When I pay 25% to 50% of your oracle cost each year as maintenance, I would expect them to have a more friendly attitude, coupled with a desire to 'really' help fix problems that customers are facing. But all you get is pathetic bureaucracy. And the replies will make any decent DBA jump out of window. Thankfully my office is in the basement, therefore no windows!
One of the worst part of purchasing oracle is that you cannot access their bug database unless you are on maintenance. Duh! They are your bugs, so why should I pay for getting access to documentation about them?