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

In article <34FF689F.3F6F_at_p3.net>, Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_p3.net> wrote:
>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

Has been extremely successful. The big mistake previous dinosaurs made was to assume what is true now will be true in the future.

>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.

When it gets to the point of MIS types perceiving an order of magnitude savings by throwing PCs together (whether or not it is true), what you pay becomes less important than what everybody else pays.

>
>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.

Does anyone have info on installing Oracle more recent than 7.0 on linux?

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

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