Re: licensing $$ comparison to SQLServer?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:33:05 +0100
Message-ID: <3d9aaf42$0$8509$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Glen A Stromquist" <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9x4l9.7542$bj5.460125_at_news2.telusplanet.net...
> I sent you the spreadsheet Daniel - let me know if you dont receive it.
FYI
> in the end, with our "named user credits", if we were to go 100% oracle at
> our site we are about $40k ahead becuase of MS's charger per server
> license. However without the credit the SS are definatly in SQL servers
> favor, as you will see in the model. This looks at cost only, not any
> performance, reliability or other issues.

I too wouldn't mind a copy of the spreadsheet if possible.

The only thing I think has been missing from the discussion is that both Oracle and MSSQL are available on a per-processor license basis as well.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 03:33:05 CDT