Re: Price Sybase, Oracle, Informix to compete with NT-sqlserver

From: Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_p3.net>
Date: 1998/03/05
Message-ID: <34FF689F.3F6F@p3.net>#1/1

Ummm,

As to your suggestion 1:

Since Oracle is already outselling SQL Server on NT why should they cut their price? Apparently the Oracle marketing strategy - which is extremely successful --is to sell for more than anyone else and then find customers who believe that if something sells for more it is worth more. Of course when your business depends on your RDBMS you don't mind paying more in order to get the support you need to keep you in business when things go wrong.

As to your suggestion 2:

I too, would like to see Oracle available on Linux, but given the differences in Linux flavors and the fact that Linux is free it probably won't happen. Again, Oracle is a premium product. Perhaps they feel it would besmirch their reputation to be associated with inexpensive operating systems.

Regards

Jerry

Regards

Jerry

gold_bag_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> A good suggestion for Sybase,oracle and informix corporations:
>
> Suggestion 1:
> To compete with Microsoft NT+SQLserver, sybase, oracle and informix
> must port their RDBMS to LINUX(Intel) and price the product such that
> it is equal to cost of NT OS + cost of (sybase, oracle,informix) on NT

>	{snip}

>
> Suggestion 2:
> Oracle, informix, sybase must distribute LInux+RDBMS on a single cdrom.
> They can pick
> one of distributions like RedHat.
>

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Jerry Gitomer		Since I know how to spell DBA I became one. 
jgitomer_at_p3.net

Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CST