Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-lond.gip.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Norman Dunbar Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Can Someone Point Me At Some Whitepapers Comparing Oracle to M$$QL$erver?? Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 07:38:29 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <0YQDa.80$6f6.10489976@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com> <6mRDa.56640$DV.79745@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> Reply-To: Oracle@MSSQLBountifulSolutions.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: bountiful.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1054881414 27894 194.222.119.227 (6 Jun 2003 06:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 06:36:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:188817 X-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:40:01 MST (news.easynews.com) Stephen Ferracioli wrote: > > "Jim Kennedy" wrote in message > news:6mRDa.56640$DV.79745@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. > Morning Stephen, if the bean counters are doing this to you, do it back - tell them that Linux running Oracle has a lower TCO than anything Microsoft can do. :o) Regards, Norman. PS. Sorry if this is no help - I've never even seen SAP. -- Remove a certain other database to reply :o)