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| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
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| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
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| 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 |
953.0. "Lets get together with Oracle" by IJSAPL::OLTHOF (Henny Olthof @UTO 838-2021) Fri Jul 12 1991 13:52
Who has seen any of these....
Image a full page advertisement with HUGE letters in the top section and
two little lines at the bottom.
Ad 1
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HUGE: Rdb is Free. And worth every penny.
Bottom: DEC VAX 6540 running Rdb costs $66,000 per transaction. The same system
running Oracle is only $30,000 per transaction. Any questions. Call
1-800-527-6560 Ext. 1608. The phone call, of course, is free.
Ad 2
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HUGE: Even free, Rdb costs twice as much as Oracle
Bottom: A 20 user OLTP system running Rdb is $300,000. A 20 user OLPTP system
with Oracle is only $150,000. Any questions? Call 1-800-527-1527 Ext.
1607.
Ad 3
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HUGE: Rdb. It's slow, it's proprietary, it locks you in. Maybe that's why it's
free.
Bottom: Rdb only runs in a VAX environment. Oracle runs on virtually every
computer, operating system and network you have today. Or will have
tomorrow, And, by the way, Oracle is twice as fast as Rdb. Any
questions? Call 1-800-567-6785 Ext. 1604 for more information.
I got copies of the ads via a famlily relation of one of our local employees,
who works for Oracle marketing. I don't know wether these have actually been
published or are just samples of what Oracle may use in the future.
Who had this idea of getting friends with Oracle? Guess we have to give them a
call.
Henny Olthof, TP-DB Netherlands
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
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| 953.1 | They snubbed me at Database World | DPDMAI::HYDE | Rdb �ber alles OKO 487-2256 | Tue Jul 30 1991 23:50 | 6 |
| Interesting advertisements. I went to Database World in Boston about
1� years ago. I tried to talk to 2 ORACLE Reps there. They both
looked at my name tag (Digital was on it) and wouldn't even talk to me.
Kurt
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| 953.2 | Oracle sales reps are bad | IJSAPL::OLTHOF | Henny Olthof @UTO 838-2021 | Wed Jul 31 1991 08:29 | 7 |
| My experience is, that Oracle marketing and management people are not
so bad to deal with. It's those sales reps (the ones that get paid on
provision of sales) that are annoying. In fact, one of my best friends
from university works in the support center of Digital Holland. He
supports VAX VMS customers.
Henny Olthof, TP-DB Netherlands
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