Re: my 2 cents

Hazaah; with one caveat: Put yourself three years in the future with different people developing and maintaining your present project.

criteria:
development cost
license cost
maintenance cost

attwoody <attwoody_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:838faj$6ma$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <8376ik$bmv$1_at_nnrp03.primenet.com>,
> "kevin moriarty" <schmerd_at_primenet.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, Kevin,
>
> I think Mr. Scott expressed it best, in Star Trek V (I think) - "the
> right tool for the right job".
>
> These days, intelligent, competent IT people can build systems on
> almost any platform, with almost any technology. For example, my
> company just went through due diligence to select a platform for our
> PeopleSoft upgrade. For the UNIX side - HP-UX, Solaris or AIX would
> have done just fine, in fact, even Tru64 UNIX.
>
> We chose HP, because of "dead presidents" - HP aggressively pursued
> our business (we are a heavily IBM shop, with RS/6000's, AS/400's and a
> mainframe) and gave us a _major_ discount. We could have just as
> easily bought a Sun or another RS/6000. In fact, there was serious
> discussion about using one of the new 8-way Intel processors from
> either Compaq or Dell and using Windows NT (although I have to admit
> that NT is about 18 months away from me being totally comfortable with
> running an Oracle VLDB on it; I confess to being somewhat of a UNIX
> bigot, buy hey, NT is Just Another Operating System, and is becoming
> more all the time).
>
> We even discussed SQL Server or DB2 as possible alternatives to
> Oracle; I've worked with Informix and have some exposure to Sybase.
>
> The main point is that IT people should use the appropriate
> technology for the appropriate task, or at least attempt to.
>
>
>
>
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> Before you buy.
Received on Wed Dec 15 1999 - 14:19:01 CST