How do you compare Oracle 10G with SQL Server 2005?

exept for performance and pricing...
We haven't decide to upgrade SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 or buy more license for Oracle 10G...
Any comments are welcome!

OK I only came here because of APC's referral down the piece (I was curious where all the hits came from - cheers Andrew). Comments embedded anyway
Thanks Gaff!
* Staff Experience with product - how flexible is
your staff?
--Staff need to learn sth. new...:)That's a fair motivation if recruitment and retention of staff is an issue - if you want reliability giving business systems to people who don't know the tech is a rather foolish move.
* Current product use Corporation/group - if you have
15 SQL Server boxes and no Oracle, what is the
impetus for change? Same if you have 15 Oracle boxes
and no SQL Server ones.
--80% SQL server and 20% Oracle. We are thinking to
balance to 50%-50%.I'm curious as to the reasoning behind this? I don't really see what the benefit is.
* Features - Do you want/need text handling
capabilities? Data mining? Storage of non-text
records? XML?
--I think both of DB system can do these.They can
* Scalability - Is one Windows box going to meet your
needs or do you need to scale (now or eventually) to
multiple boxes of multiple CPUs?
--This is really a benefit feature of Oracle better
than SQL Server.SQLServer scales - it just scales in a different way (federated databases vs RAC).
Thank u for ur US$.02Are you evaluating the platform for an in-house development or a database neutral application - if the latter I'd be sorely tempted to find out what the development platform is or read the docs for clues. For example we are looking at a product that supports SQLServer,MSDE and Oracle. In the FAQ "how do I choose between SQLServer and MSDE?", if we do implement it will be on an MS platform.
I consider this probably the most crucial factor since SQLServer and Oracle have different architectural features they tend to generate different development approaches - porting one to the other nearly always hurts the new platform. Plus if I need support I'd be hoping that I got a bug fix from a developer and not from a developer whose fix was then ported.
The same applies to in-house dev obviously, but there at least you can hire people with the right skillset for the app development.
Cheers
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

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