True, but it is the latest that MS is offering since they keep on delaying their products. For those who paid 3 years subscription but get nothing, I wonder if that still makes SQL server cheap. -----Original Message----- From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:Jacques.Kilchoer@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Fri 5/7/2004 8:38 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: RE: XML databases To be fair, they are comparing a just-released version of Oracle with a version of SQL Server that is almost four years old.=20 -----Original Message----- Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx Infoworld has a nice comparison article on the top 4 RDBMS's and their ability to work with XML data. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/23/17FExml_1.html Probably no surprise that Oracle came out on the top, and MS SQL Server came out on the bottom. As with the Internet in general, Microsoft got started too late with XML, and SQL Server is evidence of that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------