Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals

Congratulations to Datastax's PR team, they did a wonderful job getting this reporter to pit them against almighty Oracle. In reality Oracle will die from a thousand cuts, not just NoSQL but other cheaper (and more reliable) alternatives such as SQL Server, Postgres, etc.

As much as I dislike Oracle, this article is pure crap. It's only general speculation with no information or value. Then it starts talking about Datastax like they are the ones causing these (made up?) problems for Orcale.

It couldn't happen to nicer people... After my last upgrade of the Java virtual machine on my laptop, I found the installer had kindly installed the Ask toolbar on all my browsers, too. It left me with quite the bad taste in my mouth.

This is obviously a PR article. Oracle is not just a database company anymore. Comparing Oracle to a 100 people company does not make much sense either.

All I can say is DBase IV. If you don't innovate, you will get replaced. They're trying to do too much. Stick to your bread and butter.

This is nothing but a PR piece by Datastax, from TC.

This is what happens with companies who get too slow to innovate. Oracles best days are behind them, I feel.

Oracle isn't a database company anymore.

Actually I suspect the reason Datastax is growing is less because of Cassandra but more because they are one of the only cohesive enterprise class database, analytics and search platforms around. Having Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr in a tightly coupled, well supported package is pretty compelling.

Unless I made a mistake, Datastax was mentioned 11 times in an article about the "bleeding" of Oracle. Now Oracle has a gazillion other competitors so I am wondering.<p>Considering how ethical Techcruch is...let's not say it.