I would disagree, it is not hard to say at all. =) Oracle is feature-rich and robust, as well as bug-laden and overly complex. Which market do you think that caters to? On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 09:30, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thats hard to say, but they are definitely pricing themselves rather high > if they intend to compete in the small to mid-size market. > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Peter Barnett <regdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Curious question. I have attended two Oracle events recently promoting >> Exadata. These are high performance, expensive systems. >> >> At the same time we have purchased applications requiring small to >> mid-sized databases. All are written for SQL Server only. >> >> We only have one data warehouse. We have hundreds of other applications. >> Is Oracle giving up on the small to mid-size database space? They sure >> aren't talking about it in their marketing events and I am not seeing apps >> come in the door written to be either database agnostic or written for >> Oracle. >> >> >> Pete Barnett >> Database Technologies Lead >> Regence >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. >> Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. >> http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > > > -- > Andrew W. Kerber > > 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' > -- Charles Schultz