Re: Why is Oracle expensive?

rlbright_at_rich.nt.com (Ronald Albright,448-7839,) writes:

>In article 6hh_at_bsdns.brooks.af.mil, eckhardg_at_brooks.af.mil (Gary Eckhardt) writes:
>>Just to interject my 2cents: The basic jist from Oracle is that there are not - and
>>probably never will be - any future versions of Oracle released on the PC. It's just
>>too dang big now. Probably only larger scale systems and server systems.
>>
 

>I curious what makes you think that. I though the were releasing the 7 toolset
>(Forms4.0,SRW2.0) for windows on June 1. The unix stuff won't be released until
>60 to 90 days after that.

      I think we have to be more specific here. Just saying "PC" is not
      good enough as some have pointed out.  I think when some say "PC"
      they mean "MS-DOS".    OS/2, UNIX and Netware all run on "PCs" and
      I'm most positive Oracle will have v7 RDBMS on each one.  As one
      person pointed out, you can get a "PC" with 128 Megs of Ram and
      28 Gb of hard disk.  This is larger than many Sun and HP workstations.
      If you look in the trade press, they will still call this a "PC"
      because it uses a 486 processor. 

      Now the tools are a different story.  All of the new tools will run
      on DOS/Windows first I believe.

    Rich Holowczak
    Rutgers University
    holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Tue May 18 1993 - 23:04:14 CEST