datab0y_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Ian <ianbjor_at_mobileaudio.com> wrote in message news:<40d723c6$1_1_at_corp.newsgroups.com>...
>
>>Noons wrote:
>>
>>>Is this DPF thing one of those famous separately priced options?
>>
>>You mean like every Oracle option? According to the Oracle E-Business
>>Global Price List (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/ePLext.pdf)
>
>
>
> Aha, well - the point is that Oracle costs have dropped
> *significantly* in the last four years, while DB2 hasn't.
>
> For example, in the system that Daniel Morgan mentioned would cost
> around $80k/ CPU with oracle. That would include
> enterprise edition $40k
> + partitioning $10k
> + RAC $20k
> + advanced security $10k
> -------
> $80k / CPU
>
> I mentioned before that DB2 workgroup server would do that job at
> about $7.5k/CPU, or about 10% of the oracle cost. Now that isn't
> entirely fair, since there are ways to bump up that cost - even as
> high as $35k if you put everything in. That's still less than 50% of
> the cost of oracle (and oracle could also bump up its price with that
> long list of add-ons). So, DB2 is sounding really inexpensive here -
> certainly not way more expensive as Daniel asserted.
>
> However, keep in mind that this is a huge drop in price for oracle.
> Imagine if it still used its power-unit licensing cost - and you were
> going to use four 3 ghz CPUs. That would cost about $300k / CPU - or
> about $1.2m for to fully license the quad. Based upon this - oracle
> has dropped its price around 75% in four years!
>
> Now, I'm not sure how DB2 UDB was licensed in 2000 - but I think it
> was actually less than it is now. So, at the same time oracle has
> dropped its price 75% db2 has raised its price 10% I believe (please
> correct me on the older db2 prices).
>
> So back to my original question - any one have tips on using
> competitive pricing to drive oracle down to more competitive pricing?
Not if you get your prices from a sales rep rather than from a web site.
Not even close.
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Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 21:59:54 CDT
