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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ericneu who wrote (38035)	2/17/2000 9:36:00 PM
From: ProDeath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

These results bring to mind the late 80's when Oracle optimized their RDBMS to achieve high marks on the old TP1 benchmark. Performance benchmarks are a small part of the considerations that should be made when selecting an RDBMS and an OS on which to run it. The cost metrics are even more questionable; the opportunity costs of embedding the MS product in your technology architecture can be huge and long-lived. I know of whence I speak. I just came off of a 4 year stint administering Sybase 10/11, Mickeysoft Squeaky Server, and Oracle 7 and 8 on NT. If you want a database that is "just like" MSS from an application standpoint, get Sybase; I did and it was a significant improvement in terms of reliability and uptime. However, why you would want either MSS or Sybase when Oracle is available is beyond me. The first response I would expect to hear is the perceived cost, but one should look at ongoing cost; MSS is the burden that keeps on draining your time and resources with inherent limitations of the old Sybase architecture and code flaws that do not get fixed for months on end because the vendor is simply not a database company, but instead a company which believes its obligations are complete when the shrink-wrapped package gets sold, and that its customers are about as discriminating as a crackhead in need of more crack. The bottom line is that MSS is at its core a 10 year old release of Sybase that's been dragged face down through the MS bug farm and hasn't gotten any prettier in the process. Tweaked up benchmark tests are bllsht in the real world. As my old high school algebra teacher was fond of saying,"Figures don't lie, but liars will figure".