Recommendation of use for MaxDB for production use and Oracle comparison

Hi all,
We are about to propose to a customer of ours the use of SAPDB for production use. This would be a good way to reduce license costs.
Previous use of this DB platform has shown that it is mature, but since I am not a basis or DBA, I can't really pinpoint if we miss a lot of functionality.
Who could provide some info on the following:
1 - Are there major functionalities that Oracle provides that MaxDB doesn't?
2 - Customer reference (or your inputs) on success stories.
Thanks in advance.
Leonardo

> Who could provide some info on the following:
>
> 1 - Are there major functionalities that Oracle provides that MaxDB doesn't?
I would ask:"What functionalities do you expect from a database system?" - and then "Can MaxDB provide those functionalities?". It does not makes sense, IMHO, to compare "possible" things if you never need them.
> 2 - Customer reference (or your inputs) on success stories.
We run MaxDB (former ADABAS D, former SAPDB) for 12 years now on all our systems. Our main ERP 6.0 EHP4 has a size of 3 TB, we run on Linux serving about 900 users (700 concurrent), a BI with roughly 1 TB (with BWA), CRM with 600 GB, and tons of portals and smaller systems (SRM, SRM-MDM 7.1, GTS 7.2, SolMan, PLM (cProjects), Content Servers and more).
There are, as with every database, "performance problems" in special areas but generally our response times are below 500 ms on the main ERP.
One drawback of the MaxDB is the fact, that it does not use UTF-8/CESU-8 to store the data (yet) so if you use only single byte codepages in a Unicode system, you will neverless consume the full 2-byte space per character.
Basically I think that you can run roughly 98 % of the current systems on MaxDB without any impacts.
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Data Protection for mySAP(R) Interface between BR*Tools and Tivoli Storage Manager - Version 5, Release 4, Modification 0.0 for Linux x86_64 - Build: 303 compiled on Nov 16 2006 (c) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1996, 2006, All Rights Reserved. BKI0008E: The environment variable BI_CALLER is not set correctely. The current value is "DBMSRV" usage: backint -p [-u ] [-f ] [-t ] [-i ] [-o ] [-c] where: backint utility user backup | restore | inquire | password | delete file | file_online parameter file for backup utility name of a text file that defines the objects default: STDIN Pool for processing messages and the results of the executed function. default: STOUT BKI0020I: End of program at: Thu 22 Oct 2009 02:06:14 AM EDT . BKI0021I: Elapsed time: 01 sec . BKI0024I: Return code is: 2. -
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