Well, if we are talking about canned applications, SAP R3 works on all
mentioned databases. Development tools like DBeaver and SQL Squirrel are
also pretty good. Eclipse has lots of modules, too. Solarwinds can
monitor all of them. So can Nagios or Zabbix. The question is a bit too
broad. The client should be looking for the applications of interest only.
On 11/01/2017 05:39 PM, ora_kclosson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
What sort of app did that customer have that gives them the freedom to think about a different RDBMS? Surely no Oracle "4GLs" (Forms, APEX, etc). Is it all Java with ORM like Hibernate?
On Nov 1, 2017 1:15 PM, Dave Herring <gdherri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm now finally involved with a client who has gone down this road
and Oracle lost the discussion. Of course legally I can neither
confirm nor deny how many millions were involved in the ULA that
was cancelled along with neither confirming nor denying any
outright effort to move to a different vendor. :-)
Dave
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Mladen Gogala
<gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Audits are back, for some time now:
http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/
<http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/>
The best way to stop that practice is to change the DB vendor.
Fortunately, there are 3 large competitors to Oracle Corp:
Microsoft, IBM and SAP. Oracle will stop doing that when they
lose sufficient number of customers. It's called "market
economy". Technological gap between Oracle and their
competitors has shrunk significantly. SQL Server 2016 and DB2
11.1 are excellent databases which can do almost anything that
Oracle can do. DB2 can even execute PL/SQL natively. I am not
so sure about SAP Hana, but there is an increasing number of
adopters. One way of avoiding vendor lock-in is using
Java-based MVC frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. I would
avoid applications written specifically for Oracle and always
consider database neutral alternatives, should they exist.
Regards
On 11/01/2017 01:17 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
I think I read a few months (a year?) that Oracle had
stepped up its license reviews as a way to generate revenue.
I'll have to see if I can find it again.
Chris
-- Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel:(347) 321-1217 <tel:%28347%29%20321-1217>
-- Dave
