Re: SQL SERVER vs ORACLE

Daniel

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> I agree with your basic point but one thing I find fascinating is any
developer
> or DBA giving a rip about the cost.
>

Unless that DBA has to write a justification for why a customer should pay for Oracle rather than use the free (not quite) MySQL for running their ATM system :-)

> When was the last time anyone here actually paid a dollar from their own
pocket
> to license any RDBMS software?
>
> And please don't tell me that your employer, be it a Boeing, an AT&T, a
> Siemens, a Phillips, or whatever is going to notice a few hundred thousand
> dollars one way or the other when they are flushing hundreds of millions
or
> billions, down the rat hole of unproductive workers and executive perqs.
And
> the difference between Oracle and other RDBMSs is not going to be anything
> close to a few hundred thousand dollars. And management really doesn't
care.
>

You'd be suprised at how many big organistations I've been involved with want mission critical systems to run on zero cost (up front at least) installations. MySQL on Linux anyone ? The bean counters really need to understand costs better (as you next point shows). Getting some of them to believe the figures can be like getting blood from a stone (and a very hard stone at that).

> One real cost to an enterprise is the cost of downtime. Take an
application
> I worked on at Boeing about 8 years ago. We hosted about 10,000
simultaneous
> users. Assuming the average employee costing the company $1.00 per
unproductive
> minute figure out how long it took to pay for the license difference and
why
> they chose Oracle.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 04:32:21 CST