It’s one way to know “we’ve arrived,” I suppose.
You can now find, on the very first link under “technical information” on Oracle’s XML DB homepage a link to an Oracle-authored comparison white paper (and I use the term loosely) that compares Oracle 11g XML DB to Mark Logic Server.
There’s a lot to say in response and because it’s a busy time of the year (and we don’t have 50,000 employees) it’s going to take a few weeks to publish an opposing white paper. But we do plan to put some of our XQuery experts on a webinar before that in order both to respond to Oracle’s claims and — since they started the fight — to make a few of our own.
Meantime, you might check out Stephen Arnold’s interesting ramble that discusses Oracle’s move: Oracle Feels Heat, Tries to Redefine Kitchen.
Or you can take a look at some slides I threw together with my own thoughts, below.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Dominique Rabeuf // Dec 15, 2009 at 9:35 am
Oracle remembers Cullinet. As Cullinet, Oracle is a manufacturer specializing in databases.
Oracle has tried to add strings to his bow to offer more services and attack other corners of the market, but without much success. Oracle chose VAX / VMS as a reference platform and later bought rdb. for income maintenance.
Oracle invoicing contains important maintenance revenue rather than sales of new technological advances. Oracle recently bought a hardware platform and an operating system.
Oracle will also need to think of IPTV and also propel the mobile station and instant messaging, why not telecom operator.
Someone whose first name is Larry had said that SQL would live a thousand years.
Perhaps XQuery will not be alive during a thousand years, but probably longer than SQL.
Anyway, what interests people is the ability to manage their documents, data of all formats as simply possible.convenablement with comfortable incomes without wishing to exceed the area of business that we chose.
2 Henrik Loeser // Dec 15, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Dave, you are proving some points Oracle made regarding company size. They had a marketing co-op write that fluffy piece of art, Mark Logic is answering through the CEO…
Henrik
3 Timo Elliott // Dec 15, 2009 at 11:53 pm
After all the years of preaching about not mentioning smaller competitors, I can just see your wide grin as you created these slides!
4 Dave Kellogg // Dec 18, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Henrik,
Anyone who'd rather buy software from a company where the CEO is inaccessible and out of the touch with the business has plenty of options!
Seriously, while smaller size has both its advantages and disadvantages, having the CEO close and in-touch isn't one of them.
And, fwiw, this is just my quick hack. The real response will come from our XQuery experts.
I'm just an old database guy.
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