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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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What Sybase lacks in market share, it seems to make up for with user enthusiasm.
Following my call last week for feedback about the merits and future of the Sybase DBMS, dozens of you wrote in, effusive with your praise of the product. Here is a compilation of your thoughts. In a nutshell:
- A high-performance data warehouse can be built with Sybase for a tenth of the cost of anybody else.
- Sybase is the fastest DBMS: ASE 12.5.0.3 recently scored the best benchmarks for a Linux based RDBMS, ever.
- Sybase is much easier to learn, install and administer than Oracle.
- Sybase is very efficient in terms of utilizing operating system resources and so requires less hardware.
- Sybase beats Oracle in terms of Total Cost of Ownership.
- Sybase is very reliable: multiple people said that they've been running Sybase for years without any downtime.
- Selling SQL Server to Microsoft was a big mistake, although Sybase ASE is today a far better product than MS SQL Server.
- Sybase is not only not in decline, it's growing: 600+ new ASE customers have been won over in the last year.
- More great comments here
The only negative that fans could muster is that despite having brilliant engineers and technical people, Sybase has the "lousiest marketing and sales teams among the leading RDBMS vendors."
Thanks to everybody who took the time to write in. I'm impressed! SearchDatabase.com will definitely increase our coverage of Sybase. In fact, we've already started: check out our Sybase takes new approach to messaging story. Also, a complete list of our Sybase news and technical advice is available.
Till next time, Tim DiChiara, Editor
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Grid computing
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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The hype cycle for grid computing is reaching its peak, with the major DBMS vendors leading the way. What is it anyway? Is it right for your company? Read more inside...
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Featured Expert Craig Mullins, Director of Technology Planning, BMC Software
Category: DB2
Craig has extensive experience in the field of database management, having worked as an application developer, a DBA and an instructor with multiple database management systems, including DB2, Oracle and SQL Server. Additionally, Craig worked as a Research Director with the Gartner Group covering the field of database administration. He is the author of the DB2 Developer's Guide, the industry-leading book on DB2 for OS/390, and has published more than 100 articles on database technology. Ask Craig your tough DB2 questions!
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This Week: In the forums
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Inserting & deleting a node in a tree
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SQL5005C error: Unable to install DB2 UDB v8 PE
Member "Okonita" is having a difficult time installing DB2 UDB v8 Personal Edition for Linux, Unix, and Windows on his home PC. Go to our "DB2 Tech Forum" forum if you can help. |
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Learning guide: DB2 basics
DB2 took top honors in some DBMS market share reports this year, which means many companies may have already, or will soon be, switching over to IBM's brand of data management. With that in mind, we created this learning guide, highlighting basic DB2 information that can help Oracle, SQL Server and other database pros get up to speed on the new system. |
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