to oracle or not to oracle?

hi everybody,

I am planning to build an e learning platform for a Medical University with users amounting to 2000. I would like to know the pros and cons of using Oracle 9i as opposed to IBM's DB2 or Microsoft's SQL Server. This is because at first I was told that Oracle 9i Database only limitation is it's extremely high price. Then, I found out why. For every processor it is installed into, it could only handle up to 100 concurrent users only. Is this true?

Then, if my applications need to cater to 1000 users, then I would need to buy 10 processor licences? WOW! Then it is expensive. Thus, it is somewhat the same to DB2 or SQLServer then.

Please help. Any advice you could offer is highly appreciated. Received on Thu Aug 16 2001 - 22:22:08 CDT