We're also facing this choice... except that we've not licensed either
database yet, though we've probably spent $40-50K already on Oracle training.
The poor economy has hit us hard and now we're in a budget crisis and
management is balking at the licensing and maintenance costs, which for us is
about 10x more for Oracle (SE) than MSSQL Server. I too don't want to switch,
mainly because I believe it will delay starting application development by
another year at least, as we start over on training.
In article <arggp6$gg9bq$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de>, "Chuck"
<chuckh_at_softhome.net> wrote:
>
>"NorwoodThree" <norwoodthree_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message
>news:ba03e2c.0211200715.3d8e0ae0_at_posting.google.com...
>> 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.
>
>If you find any good resources please let me know. Our company is in the
>same position. Over the next few years we will be converting 30+ databases
>to other platforms. Oracle has priced themselves completely out of the game.
>Even support costs alone are far more expensive than licensing + support on
>MS SQL and DBS2. We are converting our larger mission critical db's to DB2
>and everything else to SQL. If they were even competitive there might be a
>chance of keeping them, but sadly they are not.
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 08:22:34 CST
