Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

780.0. "Quotable Quotes RE: Oracle" by CIMNET::BOURDEAU (Rich Bourdeau CIM Product Marketing) Wed Oct 31 1990 15:22

                                                                                                       
    Recent Quotes from Articles in Digital Review RE: Oracle's Q1 loss of $36M
    
    
               Sales of Oracle for VMS platforms 
               dropped to 44 Million for the first
               quarter of fiscal 1991, down from
               66 Million in the first quarter of 
               fiscal 1990.
    
                                Digital review Oct 1, 1990
    
       ...looks like we are continuing to gain ground since passing Oracle
          last year on Sales of relational databases for VMS.  Listen to
          what analysts are saying...
    
    
    
                Analysts attributed the loss to a 
                backlash from customers after Oracle
                made product promises it could not
                keep.
    
                                Digital Review  Sep 17, 1990
    
    
    
                Competition from DEC and its bundeling
                of Rdb with VMS as a possible contributor 
                to Oracle's first-quarter loss.
                                                    
                                Peter Kastner
                                Aberdeen Group
                                Digital Review   Oct 1, 1990
    
    
                The trouble with the Oracle product
                line has been its poor implementation.
                The database was overly complex, and
                difficult to learn, install, and maintain.
                                
                                   Richard Finkelstien
                                   Performance Computing
                                   Digital Review  Sept 17, 1990
    
    
                The software's implemenation problems
                enabled oracle to make a great deal of
                money in consulting services, but those
                problems came back to haunt the company 
                and it lost customers.
    
                                   Richard Finkelstien
                                   Performance Computing
                                   Digital Review   Sept 17, 1990
    
    
                 Oracle's Key to success has been its
                 ability to port its source code.  However,
                 this portability turned against the company.
                 The Oracle RDBMS was never optimized for one 
                 architecture and thus has been streched to 
                 its technical limits.
    
                                    Paul Cubbage
                                    DataQuest
                                    Digital Review  Sept 17, 1990
    
    
                 Users found Oracle was inadequate for
                 large relational systems that required
                 better security, or that were to be used 
                 in demanding applications like transaction
                 processing.
    
                                   Paul Cubbage
                                   DataQuest
                                   Digital Review  Sept 17, 1990