From: mnc@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz)
Subject: Re: Oracle licesing/pricing question...
Date: 2000/06/06
Message-ID: <N2a%4.28135$Ym2.554083@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net>#1/1
References: <8febg6$sft$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8flrna$ums$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8foj0p$f6b$1@soap.pipex.net> <392047d2.42750371@News.CIS.DFN.DE>
X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@bellatlantic.net
X-Trace: typhoon2.ba-dsg.net 960310573 151.200.19.190 (Tue, 06 Jun 2000 12:56:13 EDT)
Organization: Posting from Washington, DC
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 12:56:13 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc


Jan-Erik Rosinowski <spamfilter@rosinowski.de> wrote:
>> I use getright , for exactly this reason. The only trouble I had was a week
>> to download 8.1.6. The CD turned up next day <grr>,
>
> to be honest i'm really wondering why they concede to run their site
> on oracle. 

Their FTP site seems to be running FileDrive, which is a third-party
product (though for $20000 (see www.filedrive.com) I'd expect more
impressive performance - cdrom.com does far better with software costing $0).

miguel