Re: DBMS advantage and disadvantage

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...

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.

And, yes, first pick the ERP vendor.

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