Re: Can Someone Point Me At Some Whitepapers Comparing Oracle to M$$QL$erver??

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:FJSDa.585305$Si4.538867_at_rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> Search this newsgroup. there was a bunch of stuff and approaches that
> should make a bean counter cringe. (at conversion) There are more costs
> than the price of the software. Eg uptime -cost of down time and
> performance.

Thanks. I'm afraid that management is already set in their mind to do this.

> Jim
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> "Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message
> news:AxRDa.87$sw6.11538583_at_newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
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> > "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:6mRDa.56640$DV.79745_at_rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> > > No such thing. (as unbiased) Why convert?
> >
> > Bean counters are trying to lower the per user cost of the system.
> >
> > > That's gonna be costly.
> >
> > The savings are supposed to pay for the conversion within one year (not
> according to me).
> >
> > > You can
> > > go to Oracle's web site and read their stuff. SAP runs real nice on
> Oracle,
> > > lots of SAP benchmarks show it to be very effecient.
> >
> > They probably think they can get rid of their DBA (me). I cost too much.
> :-)
> >
> > > Jim
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> > > with family. Remove the negative part, keep the minus sign. You can
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> > > "Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message
> > > news:0YQDa.80$6f6.10489976_at_newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
> > > > My company is looking at converting our SAP ERP from AIX/Oracle to
> Windows
> > > 2003/M$$QL$erver. If
> > > > someone can point me to some links with unbiased white papers
> comparing
> > > Oracle to M$, I would
> > > > greatly appreciate it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
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Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 22:55:00 CDT