Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

In article <5ku2hi$4ge$1_at_goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>,

        ashelton_at_numbat.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (A Shelton) writes: :> bryan_at_panix.com (Bryan Althaus) writes: :>  

>>Not gonna happen. Because Oracle, Informix, and Sybase are in this game
>>for not only the money, but the contracts. How many Linux people will
>>pay UNIX prices for an RDBMS? Oracle cost thousands of dollars.
:>

They wont. The'll pay Windows prices. If the RDBMS vendors don't bring their prices down, they'll all lose out to MS SQL server anyway. When Oracle release their Linux version, it will be cheaper than other Unix versions or it won't sell. I reckon it'll be about the same as the Windows version.

>>When your done buying your raid drives and Oracle and etc. the cost
>>of the OS is meaningless. At that point why run Linux?

It isn't the single one off cost of the OS that's the problem. It's the 2000 user license that is expensive.

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