Re: Oracle License for Training

Probably true, Jared.

But financial guys and managers look at this simple overview:

EE (Oracle): $40K per CPU
EE (DB2): $20K per CPU
EE (MS): $20K per CPU

And they might quickly get confused by all sorts of points of views and technical discussions and simply ask: Well, is EE (DB2) or EE (MS) good enough for this project? Because they're only half the price...

Mogens

Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:

>MS SQL costing less than Oracle is only partly true.
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>If you load up MS with the extras that constitute a std
>feature set on Oracle, Oracle is very competitive.
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>Been lots of comparisons on that.
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>Now PostgreSQL and MySQL, those *are* less expensize than
>MS SQL and Oracle. :)
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>Jared
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>Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
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>Quoting Ora NT DBA <orantdba_at_netscape.net>:
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>>Hi All,
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>>This conversation didn't start out in dealing with educational
>>institutions, it
>>started out as a group that wants to use it to make money.
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>>Oracle is making every effort to work with legitimate education
>>institutions. The
>>Oracle Academic Initiative does exactly what you describe.
>>Institutions
>>pay a
>>small fee (500.00 I think) they are have access to ALL Oracle
>>Software
>>for use in
>>instruction. They also have access to Oracle University Curriculum
>>if
>>desired.
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>>more information can be found at:
>>http://oai.oracle.com
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>Sounds good. It's not that expensive! I wonder if Oracle instructors
>cost more than MS SQL instructors that's why most schools (where I
>am)offer MS SQL?
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