Re: What is Oracle thinking

> with companies, I'm forces to use MS-SQL. Now I'm stuck using MS-SQL, which
> makes MS happy. Now I will use ASP and Visual Interdev. They keep
> mindshare in my mind. And if I ever have to consult a small business

I suggest that you are limiting your choices to Oracle or SQL server which is [Quoted] irrational. Firat of all I agree that charging per power unit when you can buy a [Quoted] dual pIII 500 machine for a couple of thousand dollars is outright robbery. 20K [Quoted] for a database you have got to be kidding me!. OTOH the internet connect fee for [Quoted] DB/2 is "only" $3000.00 which is just a little more then what MS charges (last I [Quoted] checked it was about 2500). COnsidering that DB/2 will run on linux it may actually be cheaper then a NT/SQL server combo. Having said all this I would doubt that you would need the capabilitites of any [Quoted] of the above mentioned databases till you are much bigger. Until then why not [Quoted] save yourself all kinds of money and use Postgres or Interbase or Sybase. Sybase [Quoted] adaptive server is free on linux, so is Interbase version 4. Interbase version 6 [Quoted] is in beta and is open source!. Postgres is free and very easy to use and administer and is well supported by all web technologies. If you spend the money [Quoted] on SQL server you are limiting your choices. You are stuck with IIS/NT/ASP and [Quoted] that's it. By going with postgres (for example) you can use java, perl, python, [Quoted] php, tcl etc. You can use all kinds of middleware app servers like Zope, or [Quoted] enhydra. You also would have a choice of many web servers to choose from. Best [Quoted] of all you can use pre built applications and frameworks without having to write [Quoted] them from scratch or paying through the nose. Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 08:37:33 CET