Re: PeopleSoft on Oracle: Standard or Enterprise Edition??

You should pin the Oracle people down to a specific reason why cause the difference in price is about sixfold (I think). Does your backup scheme include a second machine or any form of replication that might involve Enterprise features?

"Vincent Ventrone" <vav_at_brandeis.edu> wrote in message news:9eorgv$9i9$1_at_new-news.cc.brandeis.edu...
> We are about to move our PeopleSoft Financials (Education & Gov.) ver. 7.5
> SP1 into production & have decided to use Oracle Standard 8.1.7.1 instead
 of
> Enterprise Ed. because the cost is so much lower & it seems clear to us
 that
> PeopleSoft uses none of the features in Enterprise, nor do we plan to use
> any of those features. This will also be a rather modest sized database,
> approx. 6GB when fully implemented. However, the Oracle salespeople are
> trying to convince us that we *must* use Enterprise Edition & not Standard
> though the reasons are, so far, extremely vague -- I suspect the only
 reason
> is the difference in commissions for the sales force! So I'm wondering if
> anyone in this newsgroup is running PeopleSoft Financials in production
> using Standard Ed. & whether they've encountered any difficulties or
> disadvantages by doing so.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Vincent Ventrone
> DBA
> Information Technology Services
> Brandeis University
> MS 017
> Waltham, MA 02454
> vav_at_brandeis.edu
> 781 736-4517
>
>
Received on Sat May 26 2001 - 13:20:41 CDT