Re: Bye Oracle.

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> 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
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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.

I did up a quick & dirty spreadsheet comparing the two a while back, when my boss went thru the roof when we saw what our new licensing was going to cost us once we had to opt in to the named users scheme. Not sure how it would apply to a data warehousing app, but it showed that depending on more than a few factors sometimes MSSQL was less $$$ and sometimes it was more. Oracles licensing matrix is quite simple now, the MSSQL one is not, and I got three different answers from three different MS reps when I was enquiring for more details.

I think one fellow that I e-mailed a copy to was going to improve on it and post it on his site(I forget who)

hth Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 11:33:50 CST