From: "Dave A" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle or Sybase. Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:11:58 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <8s08iu$kbg$1@isdserv3.macbank> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 45 Sybase is fine. Obviously I'd like to tell you to use Oracle, but if Sybase is essentially free due to your compan's license I cannot think of any reason to pay for Oracle.(Other than Oracle appears to have a much better chance of being around in 10 years than Sybase does) -- Dave A "Rowan McCammon" wrote in message news:8s08iu$kbg$1@isdserv3.macbank... > Hi All, > > I'm not trying to start a war here but rather am hoping that some people in > this group have worked with both Oracle and Sybase and therefore can help us > out with a tough decision. > > Situation is we're tossing up whether to go Oracle or Sybase. Ideally we'd > like to go with Oracle but licensing cost of Oracle is prohibitive compared > with Sybase as company has site license. > > So there would have to be some compelling technical reason to go in favour > of Oracle. > > The application is a OLTP system with a user base of about 300-500 users > (not concurrent). > > The DB contains a BLOB. > > The total size of the DB is expected to be initally about 20GB and is > expected to grow 20GB annually. > > The business would like high availability. > > Based on these broad requirements can anyone see any problems/risks going > with Sybase? > > Any comments welcome. > >