----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:03
PM
Subject: Re: SQL Server vs. Oracle
9i
It's fascinating when somebody proclaims "50%
savings in TCO over a 5 year period" when it is patently obvious that
A) such a configuration has not existed over the past five years and
B) it will never exist over any contiguous five year period. The
lifecycle of systems doesn't happen that way.
Back in the 1980s when the US space shuttle
"Challenger" explosion was being investigated by a panel of eminent
politicians, lawyers, and scientists, Nobel-laureate physicist Richard
Feynmann singled out NASA testimony stating that the "Challenger"
explosion could only happen in 1 out of 100,000 launches.
Noting that US space shuttles had been
launched about 50-60 times up to that point, he asked how anyone could
possibly project odds of "1 out of 100,000", never mind try to pass it
off as "fact".
When I read about TCO on a
configuration going forward 5 years, I wonder if those people are
on-call and wearing pagers, or whether they know anybody who
is...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:03
AM
Subject: SQL Server vs. Oracle 9i
This is interesting:
Ken Janusz,
CPIM
