Sybase is fine. Obviously I'd like to tell you to use Oracle, but if Sybase
is essentially free due to your compan's license I cannot think of any
reason to pay for Oracle.(Other than Oracle appears to have a much better
chance of being around in 10 years than Sybase does)
--
Dave A
"Rowan McCammon" <rowan.mccammon_at_macquarie.com.au> wrote in message
news:8s08iu$kbg$1_at_isdserv3.macbank...
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not trying to start a war here but rather am hoping that some people
in
> this group have worked with both Oracle and Sybase and therefore can help
us
> out with a tough decision.
>
> Situation is we're tossing up whether to go Oracle or Sybase. Ideally we'd
> like to go with Oracle but licensing cost of Oracle is prohibitive
compared
> with Sybase as company has site license.
>
> So there would have to be some compelling technical reason to go in favour
> of Oracle.
>
> The application is a OLTP system with a user base of about 300-500 users
> (not concurrent).
>
> The DB contains a BLOB.
>
> The total size of the DB is expected to be initally about 20GB and is
> expected to grow 20GB annually.
>
> The business would like high availability.
>
> Based on these broad requirements can anyone see any problems/risks going
> with Sybase?
>
> Any comments welcome.
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 19:11:58 CDT
