Now let me see I reckon that that price will include some increased
downtime, 6months to a years worth of reduced dba productivity, 3 months or
so of recoding of apps (and maybe replacing the pissed off dba who left for
a company that values their technical input).
in the UK a 4 processor license for std edition is available online for £46k
including support and update subscription. Even if the purchase price of sql
were zero the costs of conversion would likely exceed that 46k. Now I'm not
saying that one should ignore purchase price but if you insist on costing
comparative systems at least make sure that you include all the costs.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Joe Sath" <dbadba62_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b6mC8.4945$eb.3644_at_nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> Our company is seriously thinking about switching to sql server even
though
> I strongly oppose it. Very unfortunately, most of the time, DBAs do not
> have the final say in this matter, price does.
>
> Oracle needs to make their price more competitive, or they will lose more
> market share for sure.
>
>
Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 05:57:40 CDT
