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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

596.0. "DR selection & Oracle" by MINDER::PICKERING (O 2YUR 2YUB 2YIC URdb) Wed Mar 14 1990 15:23

    According to an Oracle advert, the readers of Digital Review voted
    Oracle the 'Best Database Management Product' for the Digital
    environment. Can someone confirm; were DR readers given a set choice of
    DBMS' to choose from & were they all 3rd party ones ie no Rdb/VMS?
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596.1It's Easy to WinCLYPPR::BOOTHWhat am I?...An Oracle?Wed Mar 14 1990 16:406
    Yes, they were given a set. I think the nominees were Oracle, Ingres,
    Informix, Sybase, and 1032. It is relatively easy to "win." You just
    buy as many copies of the mag as you need to "stuff the ballot box."
    But that small expenditure pays off nicely IF you advertise heavily.
    
    ---- Michael Booth
596.2Mike is being a bit unfairCOOKIE::BERENSONWords are a deadly weaponWed Mar 14 1990 20:5612
The competition is between products which had major releases during the year
before the survey.  Rdb/VMS did not have a release in that time period, so it
was not eligible.

Digital employees seem to consume hundreds or thousands (or tens of...) copies 
of DR and could therefore easily affect the results if they so chose.  I
don't think ORACLE could or even would bother to directly influence the results.

Customers tend to vote for what they have.  If Digital and Oracle have
similar market share, and Digital (Rdb/VMS) isn't even in the running, then
it holds that Oracle will win the vote.  Oracle, marketing wizards that they are,
of course makes the best of it....