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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Databases - What is inflating them??!! Optimize cost.
ACB (Actual Cost of Database) Report
Do you how much it costs you in taxes whenever you buy a database
software
like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS SQL server?
Now read below and look at the analysis and ways to avoid paying the
taxes
and yet continuing your business with alternatives :-
Good News : U.S. President Bill Clinton says "No taxes on Internet
Products!"
(And it means NO TAXES on PostgreSQL !!)
American companies MUST take advantage of this tax policy and it will save you/companies millions of dollars!!
Commercial databases(like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft) pay the following taxes, below oracle corp is taken as an example but it applies to ALL OF sybase, informix and Microsoft SQL server, break-up of which is like this -
Oracle corp federal income taxes : 22% Oracle corp pay state taxes : 4% Oracle corp pay employment taxes : 5% Oracle corp pay social security taxes : 7.5% Oracle corp pay medicare taxes : 2% Oracle corp pay employee health insurance : 5% Oracle corp pay employee IRA, sick leaves : 4% Oracle corp pay employee benefits : 2% Oracle corp pay marketing/advertisements : 10% Oracle corp building costs/utilities : 10% Oracle corp computer costs/Unix OSes cost : 5% Oracle corp actual cost of R&D : 15%
Now the employees of oracle corp !!! --->
Oracle employees pay federal income taxes : 22% Oracle employees pay state taxes : 4% Oracle employees pay social security tax : 7.5% Oracle employees pay medicare tax : 3% Oracle employees pay unemployment-insuranc: 3% Oracle employees pay disability-insuranc : 1% Oracle employees pay motor-vehicle tax : 2%Oracle employees take home balance : (100-total of above)%
Now the Database customers!!! --->
Database Customers pay Sales tax : 7.5% Database upgrades costs(one year) : 10%
Even though Oracle corp and Oracle employees are paying these taxes but WHO is the REAL guy paying all these taxes?? Ofcourse, it is the brain dead, dull-head database customers!!!
As you can see very clearly, all these costs do not go directly for the development of the database. When you buy a commercial database, about 70% of amount goes to taxes+misc, and the balance 15% for actual database R&D costs. Hence the real worth and value of the database is only 15%!!! (A bare skeleton goes to database and the meat to various taxes!!).
Now, wake-up, arise and awake and declare a WAR on taxes with PostgreSQL!!
PostgreSQL has the advantage over commercial databases as there is no direct tax since it is made on the internet. A very vast group of American companies contribute to the development of the PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is 100% free and complete source code is given to you!!
What is it? - "It is 100% FREE OF COST!!"
PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89, ISO SQL. It is much more advanced and is a object oriented relational database. PostgreSQL can store more data types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this capabilities more advanced).
PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, and each & every flavor of unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway.
How can I trust it?
What is it's description?
Title: PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database (Relational Database Management System) Version: 6.1.1 Date of Release : 14 June 97 Age: PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985 Description: Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, Informix Authors: Developed by millions/universities/companies on internet for the past 12 YEARS Primary WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ Secondary WWW: http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/ http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/ http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/
"Binaries only" distribution of PostgreSQL : You can run PostgreSQL
without
compiling the source. Get binaries for Intel-Linux from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/ postgresql-6.1-6.i386.rpm Primary FTP: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub Secondary ftp: ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/ ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95 ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95 ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95 ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95 A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised: PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.) http://www.illustra.com
What Can it do for me?
PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, all unixes!! To get TCL/TK - http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL : http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/ http://www.openlinksw.com UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC independent of driver managers and DLL support, used to embed database connectivity support directly into applications. http://www.openlinksw.com JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz http://www.openlinksw.com Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL: Java Rapid Application Tool for PostgreSQL http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Java Classes for PostgreSQL : http://www.blackdown.org Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : It included in the distribution of PostgreSQL. Check in src/pgsql_perl5 directory. Email: E.Mergl_at_bawue.de Perl Home page : http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL): Email: keidav_at_whidbey.com http://www.troubador.com/~keidav/index.html http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html Email: de_at_ucolick.org Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL! Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals): Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus. PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications: http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL: http://www.oswego.edu/Earp WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL: http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/ Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL: http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/ PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL (WWW Interface Tool): http://www.vex.net/php Python Interface for PostgreSQL : PyGres95 is a python interface for the PostgreSQL. It is available fromftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/python/contrib/Database/PyGres95-1.0b.tar.gz
Wdb-p95 Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW: It is at
http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/
"C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib, Informix CLI libraries.
"C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq++'. PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C, Informix ESQL/C: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus Email : linus_at_epact.se Japanese Kanji Code with PostgreSQL: It is at the following site ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/cmd/postgres/ Tested Platforms: Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix, NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, etc All flavors of unix. Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32, GNU gcc is available for win32. Check this site - http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 Go here and get the file cdk.exe (self-extractor) OR use the "UNIX on NT" tool from http://www.softway.com Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page. Email questions to: pgsql-questions_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers_at_postgresql.org To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to pgsql-questions-request_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers-request_at_postgresql.org The body of the message should contain the single line subscribe (or) unsubscribe Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide' for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals, online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in Postscript format for printing hard copies. Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore. Technical support for PostgreSQL : You can purchase technical support from the following companies/corporations - http://www.redhat.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.wgs.com http://www.yggdrasil.com Free Unix: Get a free Linux OS - a quality solution from operating system to database to front-end gui application - Check out these sites: http://www.lsl.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.redhat.com
#include <all standard disclaimers - opinions are mine only> Received on Mon Aug 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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