Why choose Oracle?
Why choose Oracle?
“Why Oracle?” This was
the question that everyone asked when Oracle was displacing the mainframe DB2
systems back in the early 1990’s. Back then, Oracle had carved-out a niche has
being a versatile database, not constrained as DB2 was to MVS and Informix is
to UNIX. At the time, I was charged with making a “buy” decision for the new
“mini computer” databases, and I’ve been intimately involved in this question
for decades.
Oracle is the not the
most elegant database, and it’s not always the fastest platform. Oracle rose to
the pinnacle of the IT world on other virtues. Rather than wait for the
end-user community to react to market changes, Oracle took a proactive approach
and often introduced features far-ahead of the market demand. I remember when
Oracle 7 was undergoing beta testing and we wondered about the new “cost based
optimizer,” “hash joins,” and bitmap indexes. In Oracle 8, we replaced EBU with
RMAN and learned about partitioning and star transformations. And so on—high
anticipation with every release.
When
managers have to make a “buy” decision for database software, they just go with
the market leader. Isn’t that enough rationale?
-By Burleson
That's the qualitative
advantage, but there are also quantitative differences. In North America,
certified individuals earn
7.5% higher salaries than those without certifications. Worldwide
the difference is even greater, with 14% higher salaries for certified
employees.
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