Oracle Licensing Paper

From: Spring04-345u <spring04-345U_at_dhf.eda>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:51:38 -0500
Message-ID: <10423ber9h5g71c@news.supernews.com>

Hello everyone, I found an interesting article for those who have questions about Oracle licensing, from our good friends at appergy.com. It is very good. Competition is a good thing after all. Any tips, tricks and hints in dealing with Oracle are welcome.

"Oracle is Putting the Support Screws to Customers: An Appergy Execution alert":
http://www.appergy.com/portal/content/products/NOC110.012OracleisPuttingTheSupportScrewstoCustomersV1.0.pdf

My opinion is:
I would suggest what I did: I started deploying all midrange and lower projects using postgresql. At least, I get to make full use of my 4 CPU computer (for free) instead of buying a crippled computer just to stay compliant with Oracle licensing policies. :-)))

Alternate SQL RDBMS:

(FREE)

www.postgresql.com (very good - has triggers and pl/sql aka pgplsql; you can also create your own data types in 'C' and user perl to write stored procedures. Nice!. Very reliable in my opinion.)

www.sapdb.com
www.mysql.com

(PAY)

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/ (DB2) http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ (MS SQLServer)

Cheers! Received on Sat Feb 28 2004 - 15:51:38 CST