Its classified as “A Competitive Review of Oracle Real Application Clusters”, this can be found here (http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/D/69D1FEA7-5B42-437A-B3BA-A4AD13E34EF6/WhyNotOracleRAC.docx). Unfortunately when ever I read these ‘competitive reviews’ they come across as unbalanced propaganda, regardless if the underlying information is accurate. I’m definitely an advocate of SQL server, but I seriously wonder what the business benefit is of this type of white paper actually is. Its reads to me as Oracle bashing rather than a real review, which is a shame – even if Oracle bashes Microsoft in a similar way.
I would much prefer if the Microsoft team where able to provide a performance grid of how two systems performed against each other with performance and cost values applied to each. Without this it just doesn’t seem balanced, and as such any good points they may be making in the document will be enviably missed or dismissed.
Update June 3: Interestingly I see others have the same opinion – http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/06/02/rant-one-sided-whitepapers.aspx
June 5 – Joe Chang Wrote: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/joe_chang/archive/2009/06/05/microsoft-s-thinking-oracle-rac-think-again-whitepaper.aspx
Have a read and see what you think,
Gareth