I'd have thought an interesting comparison would be the one off cost of
converting your datawarehouse (include training costs etc for developers
dbas etc) compared to the annual 'saving' on license costs. Naturally a
better comparison would include the cost of the different levels of
availability but this is almost impossible to quantify. My suggestion at
least compares cash you will spend now with the saving you will obtain. If
the payback period is (say) 3 years it would be interesting to compare that
with the ROI required for new development projects.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"NorwoodThree" <norwoodthree_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Our company is trying to phase out Oracle in favor of SQL Server due
> to licensing costs for our data warehouse.
>
> I dont want to cause a huge thread, but is there a link somewhere that
> explains the disadvantages to this? I dont know anything about SQL
> Server. I know there have been threads as to "Oracle vs. SQL Server"
> but it doesnt answer my question directly. I want to stick with
> Oracle.
>
> Thanks.
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 09:32:40 CST
