Re: DBMS advantage and disadvantage

Erland Sommarskog wrote:
DA Morgan (damorgan@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
Again I'm not disagreeing. But keep in mind that for any of the major
ERP systems these UI's have undoubtedly been extensively customized by
your employer.

Yes. I cannot say that my opinion in this area is very well-founded.
Someone apparently did not care two seconds about user-friendliness.
But exactly where in the chain this happened I don't know. All I can
really say that I'm baffled every time I see these screens and it says
"Oracle". It just don't match for me...

Can't help you there. And it might well be a very old version too.
Again I don't know. I'm not a big fan of a huge amount of what is
sold these days. You may well be right it is a lousy product with
a horrendous front-end. My only concern was that you get the facts
before throwing your weight behind an opinion. You are highly
respected in the community and it might not be apparent to some
that there was a lot of information missing.

You may well be right. But that does not change the calculus. First
you pick your ERP vendor. Then you pick the databases they support.
If the ERP vendor is small and only supports SQL Server 2000 then
the entire issue becomes moot.

Agreed. An application that still does not support SQL 2005 apparently
lacks viability. The same has to be said about something that only supports Oracle 9, I guess.

Exactly.

And, yes, first pick the ERP vendor.

There you have it folks. A bridge across the Atlantic and across the
waters between Oracle and Microsoft. It can be done! Who knows ...
maybe some day world peace. <g>
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (replace x with u to respond)
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