RE: Oracle's pricing

From: Dennis Taylor <ismgr_at_pctc.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:40:52 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002F3952.20010426142130@fatcity.com>

At 09:46 AM 4/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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

Um. Sorry, I left some very relevant information out of my rants, I guess. I've already determined that for what we want, DB2 is just fine. Heck, we could get by with SQLServer if I was feeling adventurous enough. Yeah, when you need every last ounce of horsepower, cost is less of a factor, but that's not us.

Dennis Taylor

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