Search this newsgroup. there was a bunch of stuff and approaches that
should make a bean counter cringe. (at conversion) There are more costs
than the price of the software. Eg uptime -cost of down time and
performance.
Jim
--
Replace part of the email address: kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com
with family. Remove the negative part, keep the minus sign. You can figure
it out.
"Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message
news:AxRDa.87$sw6.11538583_at_newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
>
> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:6mRDa.56640$DV.79745_at_rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> > No such thing. (as unbiased) Why convert?
>
> Bean counters are trying to lower the per user cost of the system.
>
> > That's gonna be costly.
>
> The savings are supposed to pay for the conversion within one year (not
according to me).
>
> > You can
> > go to Oracle's web site and read their stuff. SAP runs real nice on
Oracle,
> > lots of SAP benchmarks show it to be very effecient.
>
> They probably think they can get rid of their DBA (me). I cost too much.
:-)
>
> > Jim
> >
> > --
> > Replace part of the email address: kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com
> > with family. Remove the negative part, keep the minus sign. You can
figure
> > it out.
> > "Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message
> > news:0YQDa.80$6f6.10489976_at_newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
> > > My company is looking at converting our SAP ERP from AIX/Oracle to
Windows
> > 2003/M$$QL$erver. If
> > > someone can point me to some links with unbiased white papers
comparing
> > Oracle to M$, I would
> > > greatly appreciate it.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 21:09:41 CDT
