Re: Oracle Vs. SQL SERVER

Fereidoon Khosravi (khosraf_at_sce.com) wrote:
: HI!
 

: I am looking for any information you all can share comparing ORACLE and SQL
: SERVER. I am trying to ascertain the difference between the two and advantag
: of using one vs. the other as the backend database server. I would like to
: pick ORACLE (because of my personal experience with ORACLE 5.2- I am a littl
: behind I know!) but need to substantiate that with some facts. The front end
: more than likely will be ACCESS (or maybe Pdoxwin). Along the same line, wou
: there be any problem using MS OFFICE products with ORACLE. Can they seamless
: be integerated? (that is the argument being used -compatibility with MS OFFI
: - in favor of SQL SERVER that I want to refute, if indeed refutable).
 

: Reference to any related newspaper/magazine articles will be great too. Than
: for your help!

I don't know if this will make you feel any better but the latest suit of Oracle products for Windows 3.1 (free if you want to beta test) is that it will be OLE 2.0 compliant. Drawbacks might be that they, Oracle, recommends that you run with nothing less than 12meg RAM preferably 16meg. The demo I saw was Oracle for OS/2 running Windows Oralce SQL*Forms on a laptop with 32meg RAM (486/25) ... geeezzzz ... They also said even at 12-16meg don't plan on having anything else open! Excuse-me??? As a developer I need access to the world ... well ... okay ... if I was doing pure development for 8 hours straight I guess that's all I need ... but how many time have you had a need to read you LAN e-mailm Internet mail, kick off a report (Word/WPreferct) or not that they are OLE 2.0 how are you going to cut/paste??

The cost for SQL*Net, CDE products, Oracle*Glue, and per client RDBMS cost may push even us into another direction. With out discounts and other give-aways (ha!) SQL*Net will run $400/client, latest CDE $3800/client, Oracle*Glue $?? (not clear $1000 or $2000/client), and last but not least the RDBMS license per client is $800 (?). This is what Oracle calls *NAMED* pricing. If you do not name the client then multiply the above prices by 2 ... yup! ... x2.

Again...remember...this is to the best of my knowledge...so don't quote me.

Let me know what kind of feedback you get...thanks!

-Mike Received on Wed Nov 23 1994 - 17:16:08 CET