Re: 8i on Intel-based Unix & that f****** licensing

George Dau wrote:
>
> GC <assistant_madman_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ]Mike S wrote:
> ]> There's no way I want to be involved in a migration which
> ]> involves a change of Oracle release AND a change of platform to
> ]> one I don't trust (and have less experience of). I need some
> ]> info on alternative Intel-based Unix platforms - in particular
> ]> Solaris x86 - which I could use to promote an alternative (and
> ]> less drastic) proposal. Can anyone help?
> ]
> ]Well, if the in-house NT lobby is trying to wrest the Oracle database
> ]out of the arms of Solaris and into the arms of NT on the basis of
> ]cost, why not propose Linux (or BSD. I haven't checked to see if there
> ]is an Oracle port to BSD, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is
> ]since many large ecommerce sites run BSD)? That way, you can beat them
> ]at their own game since you wouldn't have to pay Microsoft's ridiculous
> ]prices for a work^H^H^Hserver.
> ]
> ]Personally, I run 8i on SuSE 6.2, and although the initial installation
> ]has some quirks, it runs very well and I haven't had any external
> ]problems (that is, any that are not caused by users and developers).
>
> GC, you still have to pay Oracle for the licensing. I've converted
> small (less than 2 Gig data) apps with few (less than 10) concurrent
> users over to postgreSQL on Linux. No licensing issues any more.

Of course you do. The original post stated that the in-house NT lobby is trying to wrest the db away from Solaris and into NT based upon Oracle's licensing (that is, it would be cheaper to run it on a less powerful NT box than a more powerful Solaris box). Moving to linux would have the same effect regarding the Oracle licensing, and the added effect of not having to pay MS for an NT license.

And indeed - if the Oracle instance you are running is small enough to be handled by a pc and NT, then you may not need Oracle and should look into some of the smaller/cheaper rdbms systems.

Cheers,
GC Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT