Over the last year we've had a lot of internal discussions about the database platforms we intend to support for our software. One of the things that's come up time and time again is that our enterprise customers don't feel SQL Server is an "enterprise scale database". Given this, it shouldn't be all that surprising that I found this report comparing the security of Oracle and SQL Server very interesting.
The conclusion is clear – if security robustness and a high degree of assurance are concerns when looking to purchase database server software – given these results one should not be looking at Oracle as a serious contender.
That wasn't exactly what I was expecting.