RE: Patch 9.2.07 for Linux

I am no Veritas advocate, but isn't it also true for some of the other vendors, like Oracle (RAC, etc), Precise (first bought by Verita and then Symantec, but it was expensive even when it was an independent company). Oracle has been trying to sell us their security product that does point-to-point SQL*Net encryption and the price is enormous as it is based upon per CPU and the more CPUs you have, the more you pay.

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From: Kevin Closson [mailto:kevinc_at_polyserve.com] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:23 PM
To: Hameed, Amir; kevinc_at_polyserve.com; dbvision_at_iinet.net.au Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Patch 9.2.07 for Linux  

in my opinion, the foundation suite is not in line with commodity server platofrm software licensing.

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Hameed, Amir [mailto:Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com]
>>>Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 10:11 AM
>>>To: kevinc_at_polyserve.com; dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
>>>Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>>>Subject: RE: Patch 9.2.07 for Linux
>>>
>>>When you say Veritas is too expensive, which product are you
>>>referring to? The volume manager, the cluster, the backup
>>>component or all of them?
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
>>>[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson
>>>Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:17 PM
>>>To: dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
>>>Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>>>Subject: RE: Patch 9.2.07 for Linux
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>>>>Howzat for "flat files"? :)
>>>
>>>yeah, but don't be confused. 85% of all digital content is
>>>flat files. Let's just say that seismic data, imagery,
>>>video, office docs, html and so on just don't belong in a
>>>database...and certainly not storage that has a database interface.
>>>
>>>Yes, Veritas is too expensive. They have a legacy Unix
>>>pricing structure.
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