Re: partiioning option not worth it?

From my experience ... those companies big enough to have a need for partitioning ... spend more money than £44,000 just covering the cost of liquor at the company Christmas party. In short ... is is so insignificant as to be ignored.

Add up the cost of the server, the cost of the O/S. the cost of the maintenance agreement, the cost of the sysadmins, the cost of the DBA, the cost of the developers, electricity, client computers, desks, security, etc. £44,000 is almost invisible and almost certainly inconsequential.

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton wrote:

> I (like another poster) have been suckered into using the partitioning
> option when we don't have a licence for it. I was told that we 'a licence
> for everything', but this was from someone who, like me, thought that
> enterprise edition included it.
>
> The partitioning option costs £7000 per processor and I have 2 on the
> machine I'm using. For my needs, I can develop my own equivalent
> functionality in about 1 day.
>
> The partitioning option also requires the enterprise edition which is £28000
> per processor instead of £12000.
>
> For a 2 processor machine, using partitioning will cost £44,000. I believe
> that in > 95% of cases it is straightforward to code the equivalent
> functionality, certainly in less than 20 man weeks.
>
> Why the f. does anyone buy it?
>
> I also notice the clause about reinstatement fee on support contracts now.
> No wonder people are looking to open source software when piss-taking like
> that is going on.
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 17:56:10 CST