Re: Oracle pricing ain't going down

You had everybody convinced by your speach down there in South Africa! I think actually SQL Server SE is 1/3, not 2/3, of Oracle SE and 1/2 of EE as you state. DB2 is about the same as SQL Server. No idea about Sybase.

I have this radical idea that Oracle should include RAC in SE at no extra price (I think that would spread the product fast :) ), and include all the other options at no extra price in EE. I always wondered how much extra revenue these options really generated compared to all the extra work required to convince people and manage separate options, etc.

The OLAP thing, for instance, is included in SQL Server EE, but not in Oracle EE. But Oracle has other unique options (the security stuff, etc.) that would make it a good bargain then.

I think you're right: Oracle is too expensive at the moment for most uses and users.

Mogens

Niall Litchfield wrote:

>Microsoft is approcimately 2/3rds the price for standard and 1/2 the
>price for EE IIRC. It also has about 80-90% of the functionality of
>Oracle. Oracle Std Edition One addresses all those single cpu servers
>you use on production systems.....
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>It wasn't just bad ms marketing that saw me advocating them in SA,
>Oracle really needs to wake up to the fact that it has a hideously
>overpriced product for 90% of the businesses out there. Std Edition One
>pricing is what Std Edition should be selling at IMO.
>
>Niall
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>>what is the microsoft,. sybase, and ibm database pricing?
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