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Re: MS SQL Server vs Oracle vs DB2 (&Sybase too)

From: Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: 2000/05/27
Message-ID: <39304611.5578E056@ca.ibm.com>#1/1

Davide Bianchi wrote:

> Pay attention also to the client licence fee. I remember that MS want a
> licence for each CLIENT accessing the database in an Intranet environment,
> this means that if you have 1000 users, you need 1000 licences (!!!!).
>
> > Oracle is 3X the price of DB2 on nearly every platform.
>
> What ???? The last time I saw prices, Oracle was around 250$, how DB2 can be
> cheaper ?
> Davide
Received on Sat May 27 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT

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