Re: Oracle or DB2

[Quoted] Thanks Daniel

My concern is a lot more with the functionalities and maintenance requirements than it is about money. I'm in a municipal environnement and most of my colleages from other major cities complains about the need to have DBA's for day to day operations.

We have to decide on either migrating to Oracle or DB2. After receiving great documentation and insights from those 2 compagnies, it seems that we are confronted to this reality.

For applications designs, Oracle offers more functionalities but also requires more day to day maintenance!

On the other hand, DB2 offers better performance and stabilities but personnaly I was impressed with web based Oracle 9i that offers 3 teers technology and online implementation of tables wich should reduce day to day maintenance!

Thanks again for your reply

André
"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 3CF25260.AD2229AE_at_exesolutions.com...
> "Scantland André" wrote:
>
> > As anyone migrated from DB2 to Oracle. If so here are my questions if
you
> > have any answers:
> >
> > 1- Why did you migrate
> > 2- Was it a question of money or technology
> > 3- What happend to your corporate applications running on DB2.
> > 4- Any tips (do's and dont's) for choosing Oracle.
> >
> > We are planning to dump INGRESS and we have many proposition for DB2 and
> > Oracle. Our major corporate applications are running under INGRESS so
we
> > are planning to rewrite them using Oracle or DB2.
> >
> > We have some applications running on Oracle but we find the licencing
fee
> > high and the maintenance difficult. Can anyone provide insights.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > andré
>
> Licensing fees are irrelevant compared with the cost of retraining or
> replacing personnel. If you have in-house Oracle experience take advantage
of
> it. If not then which product you choose can be tied to cost but it should
be
> the full cost of ownership ... not just one piece of a very large puzzle.
>
> I find it amazing how managers, and some techies, get hung up on licensing
> costs but think nothing of blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars in
longer
> development cycles, debugging, training budgets, testing, and deployment
> because they don't really know the product.
>
> Cost of ownership is not just a software license. Think more broadly.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Mon May 27 2002 - 17:49:49 CEST