Re: Informix 7.2 vs. Oracle 7.3 on 64-bit Digital Alpha Ser
Date: 1996/03/27
Message-ID: <dasidwel-2703961622060001_at_dasidwel-mac.us.oracle.com>#1/1
In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960327152908.12682C-100000_at_godzilla>, Dave Watson <dwatson_at_informix.com> wrote:
> On 27 Mar 1996, David Sidwell wrote:
>
> > Isn't it *ever* so strange that you failed to comment on the reason
for my post
> > in the first place - to set the record straight about relative costs.
The post
> > I responded to appeared to have a blatant lie regarding cost of the Oracle
> > system vs. the cost of the informix one. Hence my post.
> >
>
> FACT: 5 year cost of Digital AlphaServer 8400/350 hardware (including
> storage, service and warranty) used in Oracle benchmark : $1,904,137
>
> FACT: 5 year cost of Digital AlphaServer 8400/350 hardware (including
> storage, service and warranty) used in Informix benchmark : $1,781,042
>
> FACT: Informix achieved 13,646.17 transactions per minute
>
> FACT: Oracle achieved 11,456.13 transactions per minute
Interesting facts. Without looking at the full disclosure reports I cannot dispute them.
DEDUCTION: This leaves the fact that Informix s/w costs the customer much more (in license and support?):
Informix system cost
$3,779,942 - $1,781,042 = $1,998,900
(total cost) (h/w cost) (Informix s/w cost)
Oracle system cost
$3,276,416 - $1,904,137 = $1,372,279
So, the cost of ownership of Oracle s/w is significantly lower. :)
Or to put it another way, the cost of ownership of Informix s/w is almost %50 higher than that of Oracle.
P.S. thanks for clarifying the h/w cost - I see that my first post was in error as I had attributed the increased cost of the Informix solution to h/w costs. It simply had not occured to me that the cost of an Informix solution could be more than $600,000 more than a comparable Oracle system. Received on Wed Mar 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CET