Diana
Yeah If you knew the fundamentals You can manage any thing, DB2 is cool, I
worked as programmer before in Mainframes, Now Iam working as Oracle DBA,
Iam much happier to work as Db2 DBA. Mainframes like a elephant, You can
ride with stability!! Its wonderful environment. Another way you can switch
either way some times Oracle and DB2 to explore more about yourself.
Raghu.
>From: Diana Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: quotes
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 07:25:41 -0800
>
>Maybe now that I've become a damager and have a budget, I'm seriously
>considering kicking the Oracle habit. I think they and their ilk helped
>put
>a lot of dot-com's out of business through their predatory pricing. DB2 is
>looking very attractive...and I'm having tons of fun with Postgres at home.
>
>;-)
>
>The thing is, there is no point in becoming married to any technology.
>Things change...and a good designer, programmer or DBA can transfer their
>skills easily, because to be GOOD you have to understand the fundamentals.
>
>Sorry, feeling philosophical today...
>
>Diana
>
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>
>
>Isn't that utterly ridiculous. If you didn't call the 2nd server a
>"failover" server and just manually moved over the filesystems and net
>address, you wouldn't need a 2nd license! But if you automate the process
>with failover software, you do! The database and software are only ever
>going to be on one server at a time so what's the big deal?
>
>Oracle licensing has gotten so ridiculous that at our shop they've pretty
>much priced themselves out of the picture for all new databases. I suspect
>my managers aren't the only ones looking more seriously at SQL 2000 these
>days either. I'd look for Oracle to lose market share over the next 18
>months. Not because SQL is better (it isn't), but the price performance
>ratio is much more acceptable.
>
> Dennis Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>Just got my oracle quote back. I had asked about backup servers and
>failover. To quote the salescritter, "In most cases where an environment
>requires a standby failover server, a license will be required..."
>
>
>Dennis Taylor
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