The power of oracle

hi folks ,
i always hear that there is no competitor to oracle because of it's powerful database ,
but i do not know what is meant where we say (database) ,
is it (sql) or (pl\sql) or .. or .. or what ? where the power resides ?
thanks in advance

semsem wrote:
hi folks ,
i always hear that there is no competitor to oracle because of it's powerful database ,
but i do not know what is meant where we say (database) ,
is it (sql) or (pl\sql) or .. or .. or what ? where the power resides ?
thanks in advanceThe power resides in communication. If you think applications are just one person sitting and working on their pc, you don't get it at all.
The value of a company lies in its data, whether the data is in people's heads or on a database. If it goes on a database, many people can share it. If it is just in people's heads, they need to use it somehow, an inefficient manual operation. An application allows a business to improve productivity for its users.
So imagine some guy comes to your door and tries to sell you a magazine subscription. How do you know he isn't going to just take your money and run away? You must assume he has a business, and that business has to keep track of how much money salespeople take in, tell the magazines about the subscription, give the magazines some of the money, pay for business licenses and taxes. So one guy could do all that with a checkbook and some paper forms. Would it save him anything to do it on a pc? It's a toss-up.
Now, let's find out the guy is actually part of a team selling magazines over your whole neighborhood. Not only does the team leader have to do the above, he has to do it for everybody. It becomes important to have procedures to keep people from going to homes that have already been covered - or maybe try again with a cute girl on the ones that said no. Could you do this on one pc? Yeah, probably, and it might make more sense than one guy with one pc. Does everyone need a PC? Maybe, maybe not - if the PC happens to be a phone and they text each other useful information like they just saw someone getting home on the next block where the other person is. Or they kept the list of marks and door-slammers from the previous year for a sorted list of prospects.
Now let's scale up - thousands of teams all over the world selling magazine subscriptions. Now we start seeing some economy of scale. Beyond that, now we have an infrastructure, we can start using computers to send out junk mail, spam, and even directed advertising. You may already be a wiener! Get rid of all those salespeople, you don't need to pay them, a few telemarketers entering orders can do the work of many people walking around, much more productive. And now you can use social networking to direct people to your computer and order magazines because you are so cool. And, you can sell the lists of suckers who buy magazines, or even just lookie-loos, to other companies. And now you can set up a web store and get rid of the pesky telemarketers. The database has all the product information, vendors and accounting necessary to run the business.
Then you get all the people's and other companies money for little incremental cost. You don't have to take people's money and run away, you can take people's money and sit there and take more. You can even not do any of this but create a business plan that says how you are going to do it and seek investors to believe the marketing of Oracle.
That's the power of Oracle.

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