Oracle Administration Requirements

We are considering a new software application which uses the Oracle database. Our company has had no prior experience with Oracle - we've used Progress on Unix for the past 14 years and Informix on Unix for the past 2 years, so we do have RDBMS experience. My question is - how does the database administration requirements of Oracle differ from that of Progress and/or Informix? I keep reading in other posts of the high administration cost of Oracle relative to other databases.  Can anyone elaborate on that? Will we need someone full time serving as the Oracle DBA? I know that we will need staff with Oracle database knowledge/skills - my question is - is administering the Oracle database / environment a full time activity?

The application will have about 75 users, a production and test server/database of approximately 40GB each, running on Windows 2000 servers.

Thanks in advance,
jn Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 08:08:33 CST