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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alydar who wrote (10640)	5/10/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: scott	Respond to of 19080

Lots of good news out today (Source = Oracle though); Man, this story just has to work out soon. Doesn't it??? Getting ready to whine.... Here's just one of the positive spins: SOURCE: Oracle Corp. Fast-Growing E-commerce Companies Scrap Microsoft SQL Server for Oracle8(TM) Web Sites Report Scalability and Performance Problems With SQL Server REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Underscoring the Oracle8(TM) database's trademark Internet platform features of scalability, reliability, and performance, three fast-growing e-commerce companies announced that they have outgrown their Microsoft SQL Server-based infrastructure and have turned to Oracle8 to meet the heavy demands of their sites. With the number of transactions and the size of their databases growing exponentially each month, the three companies are confident that their new Oracle8 platform will keep pace with the growing traffic on their sites, as well as deliver the performance and quick response time required to keep customers satisfied. Innovative San Mateo, CA-based Digital Impact (www.digital-impact.com) creates personalized email marketing campaigns for high-profile retailers that deliver response rates as high as 40%. The company's one-to-one marketing strategy is data-intensive, requiring the tracking of multiple URLs embedded within each email. The company decided to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle8 when SQL Server performance began to sag. ''Every click on an embedded URL is recorded in the database and the more emails we send the more Web traffic we get. I doubt we would have been able to meet our current load with SQL Server,'' said Ray Kaupp, Digital Impact VP of marketing. ''In addition, Oracle8's scalability is enabling us to grow our business exponentially each month without incurring infrastructure costs.'' Insurance Holdings of America, Inc. currently provides business-to-business insurance services -- including comparative rate quotes, underwriting, and policy processing and maintenance -- online. IHA characterizes itself as a database-intensive company. Initially, it stored customer and policy information, underwriting rules, and rate data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. The company was forced to make critical systems decisions when it began to experience problems with scalability, table sizes, and index corruption. ''We needed to move off Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. Oracle provided us with the most features, flexibility, scalability and support in a mature product,'' said COO Scott Neumann. Techies.com, a local technology career portal, is in the process of moving from Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 to Oracle8. Based in Edina, Minnesota, the site is produced by recruiting firm Relevant Information and Training Systems Inc. Job hunters fill out detailed profiles that enable the site to tailor job search results to each individual. By migrating to Oracle8, techies.com feels confident that the site's infrastructure will hold up as the site adds more listings and attracts more users. ''SQL Server is only semi-scalable and it's not robust enough to meet the demands of the future,'' said CTO and CIO Stewart Burden. ''As our site encompasses more and more cities, we need the support of an enterprise solution like Oracle's.'' Currently providing high-tech job listings for eight US cities, techies.com plans to add seven more by year's end. Other businesses looking to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle8 can take advantage of the Oracle® Migration Workbench, a Java-based tool that simplifies the process of migrating data from SQL Server databases to Oracle. Wizards and an intuitive User Interface make Oracle Migration Workbench extremely easy to use. All components of the Oracle Migration Workbench are written in Java, enabling it to run on any platform with a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and ODBC access. The Oracle Migration Workbench makes moving from one database to another a self-service task that customers can perform without any outside consulting help. The Oracle Migration Workbench is available at no cost and can be downloaded from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) web site at technet.oracle.com.