RE: Why not use the Standard Edition for web hosting? Anybody?

Walt,
I've never set it up with web stuff, but I convinced the "damagement" at my last employer that Oracle was a better route for the app we were migrating (MAXIMO). The powers were leaning toward MS SQL, but by going with Oracle8 SE we maintained about the same price range and the missing EE features were never noticied. Transition went flawlessly.

HTH Rodd Holman
Enterprise Data Systems Engineer
LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation
rodney.holman_at_lodgenet.com
Comments made are my own opinions and views. They do not represent views, policies, or procedures of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weaver, Walt [SMTP:wweaver_at_rightnow.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:02 PM
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> Subject: Why not use the Standard Edition for web hosting? Anybody?
>
> Okay, here's the scenario. We currently are hosting hundreds of customer
> websites using our customer service product, and these sites are using
> MySQL
> as the backend database. I've finally convinced damagement (thank you,
> Steve
> Orr) that we need to migrate these customers to Oracle to start taking
> advantage of Oracle's slightly more robust and reliable platform.
> Damagement
> is especially amenable to this idea since I've had a lot of success
> migrating our larger customers from MySQL to Oracle at one of our leased
> sites. These customers have seen a big increase in reliablility and
> performance now that they're on Oracle.
>
> However, damagement is balking at the ridiculous price Oracle demands for
> the Enterprise Edition. So, I'm about to propose we go with the Standard
> Edition instead. I'm aware of the various bells and whistles that don't
> come
> with the Standard Edition, but they are things we don't really need. I
> can't
> really see anything the Enterprise Edition brings to the table that would
> be
> essential for running our web sites.
>
> So, before I lead everyone here down the primrose path, is anyone out
> there
> using the Standard Edition for web hosting? Any caveats? We're in the
> process of ordering the hardware we're going to use -- EMC, Sun stuff,
> etc.
> -- and we'd like to use Oracle from the get-go if possible. But that
> possibility only exists if we go with the Standard Edition, which is about
> a
> tenth the cost of the Enterprise Edition.
>
> Any comments, suggestions, snide remarks from the peanut gallery?
>
> Thanks,
> --Walt Weaver
> Bozeman, Montana, USA
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