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To: xdll who wrote (8742)1/13/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Michael G  Read Replies (2) of 14631
 
This is a VERY interesting article. Everybody who is invested in any database company should not skip this press release. Realize that it is a Microsoft Corp. press release though, not an independent evaluation.

Here is a sample...

Microsoft SQL Server is the leading database software for Windows NT Server, according to the independent market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), with 44 percent of license shipments compared to 28 percent for second-place challenger Oracle. IDC's latest database research shows Microsoft SQL Server license sales growing at more than 100 percent annually and projects that the market
for Windows NT-based databases will ''explode'' with more than 50 percent total growth between 1997 and 2001, compared to a largely flat market for UNIX database software.

Microsoft expects Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 to expand its leadership based on new features that support greater scalability, superior data warehousing and easier management and use.

...Greater scalability, providing a single database that scales from a laptop computer running Windows(R) 95 or Windows 98 to a terabyte symmetric multiprocessor cluster running Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition.

I'd like to see with my own eyes SQL Server database scaled to a terabyte. That's been one of it's biggest problems is it's scalability. If they have that licked, we've got competition because we all know how Bill can take over, well, pretty much anything he wants.
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