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Re: Why does Oracle cost so much?

From: Turkbear <john.g_at_dot.spamfree.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:33:11 -0500
Message-ID: <u87aa09cn8ui0nk9bujrf1j1k5gpak9ds4@4ax.com>


Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.verwijderdit.demon.nl> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 May 2004 18:43:23 +0200, "Markus Hölzle" <mhoelzle_at_gmx.de>
>wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>im just wondering why Oracle is so expensive and who uses it. Could someone
>>tell me, who are the usuall buyers of Oracle and why is it so special
>>compared to other dbs?
>>Thx
>>
>
>Your question is just too general.
>Oracle exists in various editions, you imply Oracle is *too*
>expensive, and you don't qualify to which edition this applies nor to
>which version.
>
>The answer would simply be to do your research (I know the Germans
>posting here generally speaking don't read any document prior to
>posting) and compare the feature list of Oracle with about any
>product, including sqlserver, including the (according too many) 'so
>much better' 'free' databases there are out there.
>Those latter products (including sqlserver) will never be capable to
>be used on enterprise wide level, for datawarehouse purposes, for 7 x
>24 operations (Also Oracle will never work 7 x 24 on any Winblows
>platform, as you have to 'patch' Winblows and reboot the system at
>least once a week).
>So: quality pays, and at its best those so called 'competitive'
>products will never leave the stage where they are now: in the toy
>stage.
>If you want to put your company data at risk: use any toy.
>If you want quality, choose Oracle.

All good points Sybrand, EXCEPT for the 'seemingly required' shot at Windows..

We have had heavily used ( 500+ simultaneous connections doing Transaction Processing) Oracle instances running on Windows2000 Advanced Servers that have never 'needed' a reboot except for critical updates from Windows ( and these are being handled much better now by SUS ) ...We do, as a matter of backup and checking, reboot them every 2 weeks. This is by choice, however and not 'caused' by Windows.

No OS is right for all applications/Users and I will be the first to admit the for a truly big iron system, I would go with UNIX ( real Unix, not linux yet, altho it is getting close with RedHat AS...)

Just 2c worth from a long time Windows( since Windows 286) user...

John

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