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The lower TCO claim is frequently used when enterprise apps compare themselves to open source options. Oracle clearly has better tooling than MySQL which coul
by neovive 18y ago
The lower TCO claim is frequently used when enterprise apps compare themselves to open source options. Oracle clearly has better tooling than MySQL which could make sense for a large corporation, but a small business or startup would find it difficult to justify the cost of an Oracle backend from the outset.
Wonder if the IE-only conference link is probably due to a third-party recommendation. Now that Oracle owns Java, they will probably switch to some Java conferencing software like Eluminate.
- dmix 18y agoOracle has been developing their products in Java since the 90s, if I'm not mistaken. I doubt acquiring the language itself will affect their use of Java products. Other then that I agree with your comment.
- philcrissman 18y agoI worked for Oracle for a couple years. The trend toward IE-dependency is (largely) because of time invested in a lot of in-house solutions where ActiveX was employed as part of the web app architecture. There may be other reasons, but I think the main one is definitely all the different apps they have (including some acquisitions, i.e. Siebel) which depend on IE. If they start to move away from IE dependency, it will probably be a long, slow transition.
- mattmcknight 18y agoOracle may have the tool edge in some scenarios, such as replication and monitoring. However, so many of the DBAs I work with need something like TOAD http://www.toadsoft.com/ http://www.toadsoft.com/ alongside SQLPlus- and they make TOAD for MySQL.