Re: Is it a good idea, dev/test/production on one box

"Joe Bayerii" <joebayerii(--)@ureach.com> wrote:

>One of my client has only one database box, and they put all their
>development/test/production on one linux box, I was trying to persuade them
>to seperate production from development, but they seem to be concerned with
>Oracle Licence cost.

>Any good reason why they should buy another box and pay some extra money to
>Oracle?

Forgive me for butting in if I'm wrong here, but I was under the impression that Oracle used for Dev and QA/Test was "free" - you can just download from their site.

You pay when you *_deploy_* any app, so obviously, you pay for your production db, but not the others.

Unless I've seriously misunderstood Oracle's licencing?

Paul...

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