Re: DB2 vs. Oracle8i: Total Cost of Ownership

From: James Williams <willjamu_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 02:42:51 GMT
Message-ID: <3a947b4b.859388@news.mindspring.com>

On 22 Feb 2001 01:30:49 GMT, CSC <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:

TCO takes hardware, software, and people into consideration.

In modern times the people and the software cost more than anything.

DB2 or Oracle on the OS/390 or Z/OS platform probably has the lowest TCO for a large organization because you don't need as many people because there are fewer machines which also means that you can have fewer copies of the software. Its really amazing.

The OS/390 could also be your web server, DNS, UNIX box, along with your traditional workload.

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