As a 15 year Sybase, SQL server and Oracle DBA. Oracle compared to the 2 mentioned requires a platoon of DBAs because of the complexities involved. We have all 3 RDBMS and 1 Sybase SQL server DBA can administer 10x what our Oracle DBA can. I'm not even including tyhe Monster OEM 12c Cloud which takes complexity to a new level to include a Gigantic resource Hog. Add cost, Human resources and Oracle is a Huge over glutton Pig!
Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
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Re: Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
#142In China, there is a hot trend called de-IOE (to remove IBM，Oracle and EMC or other big foreign IT companies' technologies and products from IT systems) in enterprise IT. Instead, we use open sources, or cloud/ X as a Service, or local technologies. I wonder if it is the same in USA or other countries?
There's a kind of similar trend in Russia.
Re: Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software
#143Oracle Sales are far from eroding, and the opposite is true. Very misleading article and analysis, and questioning which vendor is in writers pocket? "Figures don't lie but liars do figure" According to the leading analysts, Oracle has grown software revenues by over ~2.5% in 2014 vs 2013 and Oracle has grown Database revenue as well having a world wide DBMS share above 40% with growth of over 4% in 2014. If you look…
I won't argue that support is not a necessary cost of doing business. Of course it is.
It's nice to be "free" to spin up a handful of disposable test instances of a database when doing test driven / agile type development.
Oracle is difficult and arcane to create a DB instance. I had the sys admin at work help me to try to set up an instance (he insisted it was "easy"). It takes MANY steps, some of which were shown to me in tools that did not lend themselves to scripting.
I have a script that can create a ready to rock PostgreSQL instance in 5 seconds, no "Mother, may I???" required to run it. Well, ready to run a schema creation / migration, but the "tablespace" and schema name with admin/app user were in and ready to go.
If you are twiddling a few lines in a legacy app, this doesn't matter. If you are doing a big chunk of new development, automated regression testing data sources matter.