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Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> In article <u7v6hp3RVqqH_at_malvm9.mala.bc.ca>, nothome_at_spammers.are.scum > (Malcolm Dunnett) writes: >
> > How much money and work would it be for you to move to Rdb? >
I believe that earlier Malcolm state that they moved from RDB to Oracle Standard to save money. That Oracle charges the Enterprise Edition prices for RDB.
I believe that selling RDB was one of DEC's biggest mistakes. With the prices DEC had for RDB, they could be very price competitive with Oracle on other platforms, or, force Oracle into a price war.
DEC didn't need Oracle classic on VMS nearly as much as Oracle needed the price of RDB raised, by a factor of 5 if I remember correctly.
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