Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

• Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
  > On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
  > > What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
  >
  > Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As
  > a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent
  > sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
  > (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
  > available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
  >
  > Niall Litchfield
  

That hardware cost "reduction" is irrelevant when you figure the rest of the cost to run a fairly decent size shop on ORACLE.

And when a shop has close 1 MIL in license and support fees the lousy 8K are not even a drop of water in the bucket.

And then 4 years later there's the mighty APPS upgrade and here you are on a fluid-always-changing platform (Linux), shoot in the foot, having to work twice as hard for what? For a lousy 8K reduction in the initial cost of hardware that is already obsolete anyway?

• Vitaliy -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l