Re: Why is Oracle expensive?

From: Rony G. Flatscher <rony_at_wu-wien.ac.at>
Date: 11 May 1993 21:10:07 GMT
Message-ID: <1sp4nfINNecm_at_nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>


In <11MAY199309413041_at_erich.triumf.ca> grant_at_erich.triumf.ca (Peter A. Grant) writes:

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>In my opinion, V5 almost passed as a grown-up database for the PC, but V6
>is simply too big for almost all boxes. I think it's fine to run your
>tools on the PC and connect to a "real computer", but I think ORACLE has
>out-grown most PCs.
>

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Peter:

Add to your survey a couple of users (at the moment two, potentially increasing) using ORACLE 6 on a PC (the OS/2-version); add to that ORACLE*CASE.

PCs became power-workstations. E.g. my machine is a 486DX33/66, 24 MB memory, 2*400MB harddisk, 128MB magneto-optical.

Such PCs become cheaper and cheaper and one can afford to give 120MB of harddisk to ORACLE+ORACLE*CASE. Also they become faster and faster.

---rony Received on Tue May 11 1993 - 23:10:07 CEST

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