Re: What is Oracle thinking

> with companies, I'm forces to use MS-SQL. Now I'm stuck using MS-SQL, which
> makes MS happy. Now I will use ASP and Visual Interdev. They keep
> mindshare in my mind. And if I ever have to consult a small business

I suggest that you are limiting your choices to Oracle or SQL server which is irrational. Firat of all I agree that charging per power unit when you can buy a dual pIII 500 machine for a couple of thousand dollars is outright robbery. 20K for a database you have got to be kidding me!. OTOH the internet connect fee for DB/2 is "only" $3000.00 which is just a little more then what MS charges (last I checked it was about 2500). COnsidering that DB/2 will run on linux it may actually be cheaper then a NT/SQL server combo. Having said all this I would doubt that you would need the capabilitites of any of the above mentioned databases till you are much bigger. Until then why not save yourself all kinds of money and use Postgres or Interbase or Sybase. Sybase adaptive server is free on linux, so is Interbase version 4. Interbase version 6 is in beta and is open source!. Postgres is free and very easy to use and administer and is well supported by all web technologies. If you spend the money on SQL server you are limiting your choices. You are stuck with IIS/NT/ASP and that's it. By going with postgres (for example) you can use java, perl, python, php, tcl etc. You can use all kinds of middleware app servers like Zope, or enhydra. You also would have a choice of many web servers to choose from. Best of all you can use pre built applications and frameworks without having to write them from scratch or paying through the nose. Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CST