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Re:The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris by rodgerd on Monday September 04, 2017 @11:31PM (#15172322)
> The Oracle rdbms was at least for a while unmatched. It had programmability, functionality, and tunability that no other database had. If

That's never really been true. From day 1 it's been neck-and-neck with DB2.

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Re:The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris by saiya-jin on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:23AM (#15173371)
from developer perspective, that's far from true. oracle was a polished product, DB2 was, well... IBM product, PITA in various forms (toolset, easy to use etc.)
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