RE: Oracle's pricing

Problem is, if you use cost as your deciding factor and not can it support what you want to do then you are going to end up paying a lot more in the end. We have Oracle here licensed on 3 different platforms, all of them the Enterprise version plus unlimited clients blah blah blah and its still a small chunk of what we pay in. Promis is over 1 million. I am not saying buy Oracle regardless of the price. I am saying don't not buy Oracle because
of the price. Buy what does the job for you. If you can't afford to buy what you need to do the job right then you can't do what you want to do. I spend to much of my day trying to work around space limitations because they decided that buying hard drives for our HP boxes was not a priority. Now they expect miracles. There are times when you just can't let price be the deciding factor. It will always cost more in the end.

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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:26 AM
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At 01:33 PM 4/25/01 -0800, you wrote:
>As for DB2, it has a few issues where if you
>try and do certain things you really do end up very close to an Oracle
>price.
>

[ahem] Apologies Kimberly, but this sounds very much like an apologist stance. At the end of your posting, you are saying "you shouldn't be concerned that DB2 is tons cheaper than Oracle because in some cases it isn't". Well, maybe, but so what? If you do a business analysis, and they come out close in price (I could do one right now where Oracle would come out cheaper), then buy Oracle. If the reverse, buy DB2. If Oracle is the incumbent, then retraining costs etc become a cost factor. If you're just starting out, then costs may be the primary or *only* factor.

I think this is a case of the market voting with its wallet. That's how things are *supposed* to work.

Dennis Taylor

        A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking
        the precision of the former, and the success of the latter.

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