Re: partiioning option not worth it?

It is not about wasting money. It is rather that when you figure the "real" cost per hour to have a developer take something from concept through testing and deployment you can run through £44,000 awfully fast.

If you are just looking at that amount of money as how many hours of your take-home pay you are deceiving yourself. The company figures into the cost of what you do everything from the Company Christmas party to the person vacuuming the carpets at night to all of the layers of executives over you, all of the meetings needed to make the decision, the allocation to legal and administrative expenses, executive perqs, etc. And then add to that the cost of maintaining an in-house solution, documentation, training, etc.

When looked at that way, £44,000, is almost petty cash.

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton wrote:

> 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 - 11:56:06 CST