RE: Oracle vs DB2

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:04:39 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002F0E33.20010424104700@fatcity.com>

Not true. You can use the Standard Edition for serving web pages. We're doing it.

Costs much less than $160,000, although still more than $6,000 Cdn.

One thing I don't get: it's $6,000 Cdn for a 1-user license, right? How is a 1-user license going to do you any good if you're serving web pages? Just interested in how the WE Internet Access works.

We had some IBM guys in here late last year, and they couldn't give us any better pricing than what we could get Oracle Standard Edition for.

--Walt Weaver

Bozeman, Montana

Dennis Taylor <ismgr_at_pctc.com>@fatcity.com on 04/24/2001 10:57:11 AM

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With Oracle, in order to make a database accessible to the internet through a web page, you have to buy an unlimited-user enterprise license. We had a senior sales person in our office yesterday, and we asked this question a number of different ways. He bobbed and he weaved, but he did not deny it. And the quote he supplied afterwards does not address the issue at all.

Cost of unlimited-user Enterprise version for our installation (your mileage may vary) = Approx $160,000 Cdn.

IBM, for the same purpose, will sell you DB2 UDB Workgroup edition (1 user), and something called WE Internet Access, for a total price of $6000 Cdn. I have a written quote from an IBM salescritter to this effect.

$6000. $160,000. $6000. $160,000. Hm. Let me think.....

I respectfully submit that Oracle's pricing structure is out of line with market realities, and may have to undergo significant revision.

Dennis Taylor

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