Re: oracle prices, are they for real?

     I agree with you on the that, but if you are planning to buy a database server on LINUX, I would recommend Informix, as a DBA for both Oracle and Informix on Unices, I find Informix to be a better product, and very well integrated with the Unix OS. Also they are having a special deal till the end of April so it costs only 99$ for Informix on LINUX.

Ravi

christine_at_techresource.org wrote:

> 1300 dollars for oracle on linux. Does anyone
> else think that this price is recockulous. Do people
> actually pay these prices. I think i'll just tough
> it out without either postgres or mySQL.
>
> I remember reading 200$ for oracle on linux
> somewhere a year or so ago, this was from a news post,
> though. Were prices ever resonable or have they
> gone crazy just recently. I would never pay this much
> for software. Prices like these aren't paying for
> programers and support, these kind of prices are paying
> for marketers, corporate planes, and lamer businesmen
> who sit around tyring to figure out ways to screw people
> while making the programers lives misearable. I am sure
> the programers would be happier charging less, focusing on
> their code more, and loosing the corporate overhead and
> bullshit.
>
> Comments?
>
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Received on Thu Mar 25 1999 - 09:03:25 CST