Re: partiioning option not worth it?

It is sad but true that many companies waste millions, but I don't see why I should contribute to the wastage.

The odd thing I find is that people seem almost keen to waste money as there was some sort of status associated with buying the expensive version of things.

I've even worked at places where I've asked why they've got EE and they replied "because the salesman said it was necessary for big or complex databases".

damorgan <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message news:3C7437AC.F52C21C4_at_ci.seattle.wa.us...
> 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 Thu Feb 21 2002 - 02:27:47 CST