Re: License pricing
From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:07:45 -0500
Message-ID: <56DE25E1.60009_at_gmail.com>
On 03/07/2016 07:57 PM, Ryan January wrote:
> The next logical step is how many companies running SAP (or any other
> MS SQL based application) will jump to MS SQL now that it's running on
> Linux? That seems like a small market to me.
> I'd argue that it still changes nothing as MS SQL server is
> /already/ an option for that software.
>
The problem is that Windows Server was not really popular in the server market. Linux, on the other hands, rules the enterprise server rooms. SQL Server already is an alternative on Windows and SQL Server mostly rules the Windows market. Now, it may well come to rule the Linux market. Only time will tell. If MS plays their hand well, they can capture a lion share of the Linux market. You have to admit that having to pay $11K/CPU thread for creating a partitioned table or creating multiple databases is a bit ridiculous, not to mention "performance and tuning pack" licenses.
As I have said, all those auditing raids haven't won Oracle many friends. I expect quite a few companies to switch to SQL Server, primarily smaller and medium companies, as well as smaller to medium application providers.
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 20:07:45 -0500
Message-ID: <56DE25E1.60009_at_gmail.com>
On 03/07/2016 07:57 PM, Ryan January wrote:
> The next logical step is how many companies running SAP (or any other
> MS SQL based application) will jump to MS SQL now that it's running on
> Linux? That seems like a small market to me.
> I'd argue that it still changes nothing as MS SQL server is
> /already/ an option for that software.
>
The problem is that Windows Server was not really popular in the server market. Linux, on the other hands, rules the enterprise server rooms. SQL Server already is an alternative on Windows and SQL Server mostly rules the Windows market. Now, it may well come to rule the Linux market. Only time will tell. If MS plays their hand well, they can capture a lion share of the Linux market. You have to admit that having to pay $11K/CPU thread for creating a partitioned table or creating multiple databases is a bit ridiculous, not to mention "performance and tuning pack" licenses.
As I have said, all those auditing raids haven't won Oracle many friends. I expect quite a few companies to switch to SQL Server, primarily smaller and medium companies, as well as smaller to medium application providers.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Tel: (347) 321-1217 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Mar 08 2016 - 02:07:45 CET