Comments on: Oracle bigger than Microsoft?

By: Rekha Nair

Rekha Nair — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:07:36 +0000

Oracle may not be so user-friendly,thats one ground Oracle has to cover.If this is achieved there would nothing stopping Oracle to outwin Microsoft one day.

By: Keith Woodcock

Keith Woodcock — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:04:01 +0000

“…MS runs on any platform…”
I can’t say that I’ve heard of Sqlserver running on Ultrasparc. Oracle favours Linux, and used to favour Solaris. Windows is the poor relation in terms of releases and features. Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit on Windows entails losing OHS, althought there are rumours that it may be reinstated at some point in the future.

By: Dalip Dhingra

Dalip Dhingra — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:30:51 +0000

Could be possible. But Oracle product portfolio is much smaller than Microsoft. Second most of the Oracle products are not user friendly. Which medium level of user can understand.

By: UmaParvathy

UmaParvathy — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:57:06 +0000

Yes as Rishi said,
It is obvious Oracle cannot overtake Microsoft in its OS field.Even most of the engineers including me fond to be the Slaves of Mouse as it is userfriendly and typing is not required.
But if we see technology wise
Database:Oracle is best among all the RDBMS
Datawarehouse:Oracle10g is picking up but not sure will it overtake Terradata(It depends who is the first to aquire NCR).
Programming:Already Java had taken up the whole plate leaving .Net only the pieces.
Apps side:Oracle Apps and Oracle Fusion is expected to be the frontier.
Considering all Oracle(Oracle Fusion,10g)combined with Java will lead the world for sure.

By: Aalap

Aalap — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:15:15 +0000

I bet this can happen. With the Oracle’s shopping cart getting filled with more and more companies, it’s (Oracle’s) horizon is increasing. Oracle’s been buying databases (TimesTen, etc) and Applications (Siebel, PeopleSoft, etc) and next could be Operating Systems.

Best luck Larry !!!

By: Csaba Molnar

Csaba Molnar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:43:09 +0000

Microsoft like a single-handed goliath…not too successfull these days…and the Oracle extended and very successfull…so why not…
(I’m pulling for Ora )

By: Rishi Raj Rastogi

Rishi Raj Rastogi — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:18:04 +0000

It depends on what Larry means by becoming bigger. In terms of revenue, yes it is possible for Oracle to move ahead of Microsoft in a few years time looking at the acquisitions (as pointed out by Mark). But if you look at the popularity or even the brand recognition factor then Microsoft is way ahead and will stay ahead of Oracle for many years to come. The reason being very simple – Oracle is into specialized softwares/packages and a common man using a PC may/may not be aware of Oracle but Microsoft has the advantage of the Windows OS and MS Office suite, which makes it known to even a simple PC user.

Rishi

By: JD

JD — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:09:03 +0000

A couple of years ago Oracle introduced a logo with the subscription of “The information company” underneath.
I think that was the first showcase of a big and even bigger ambition so yeah they want to be bigger than ms

By: Ramzi

Ramzi — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:11:30 +0000

I think Oracle and Microsoft are not competing.Microsoft considers Google its main competitors and Oracle considers SAP as its competitor.

By: Taner Akbulut

Taner Akbulut — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:37:32 +0000

I don’t think that can happen in the near or far future. Oracle is loosing against other companies. Being first in RDBMS has given advantage to Oracle but that’s all. They are trying to generate all software like RDBMS. Also they claim that MS has so many bugs but I’ve seen very bad bugs in Oracle and lots of them are hidden. Some of the bugs are fixed years later. MS fixes softwares only days later. You know Metalink. Only thing that makes Oracle seem like good is the infrastructure. All Oracle software is server software and are hidden behind the firewalls, protected by lots of other software, run on very special servers. But MS runs on any platform. Oracle does not have open mind. They are loosing.

So much credit is given to Oracle but in the near future people will understand that Oracle is a balloon and deflated in a few years.

Java/Oracle DBA and App Developer Taner Akbulut for more than 5 years
Also developed with MS Visual Studio 6 in the past for more than 2 years