Re: What is Oracle thinking

[Quoted] Sybase Adaptive Sever comes in 2 versions....Anywhere (formerly SQL Anywhere) and Enterprise (formerly SQL Server). Adaptive Server Enterprise [Quoted] is just as powerful as MS SQL Server (and of course MS SQL Server is based [Quoted] on it....and uses Transact-SQL as does ASE). Anywhere is a smaller product [Quoted] on par with Interbase. Full SQL in that one as well.

Jason

"Malcontent" <malcontent_at_msgto.com> wrote in message news:38D9C9BD.6F12CE0_at_msgto.com...
> > with companies, I'm forces to use MS-SQL. Now I'm stuck using MS-SQL,
which
> > makes MS happy. Now I will use ASP and Visual Interdev. They keep
> > mindshare in my mind. And if I ever have to consult a small business
>
> I suggest that you are limiting your choices to Oracle or SQL server which
is
> irrational. Firat of all I agree that charging per power unit when you can
buy a
> dual pIII 500 machine for a couple of thousand dollars is outright
robbery. 20K
> for a database you have got to be kidding me!. OTOH the internet connect
fee for
> DB/2 is "only" $3000.00 which is just a little more then what MS charges
(last I
> checked it was about 2500). COnsidering that DB/2 will run on linux it may
> actually be cheaper then a NT/SQL server combo.
> Having said all this I would doubt that you would need the capabilitites
of any
> of the above mentioned databases till you are much bigger. Until then why
not
> save yourself all kinds of money and use Postgres or Interbase or Sybase.
Sybase
> adaptive server is free on linux, so is Interbase version 4. Interbase
version 6
> is in beta and is open source!. Postgres is free and very easy to use and
> administer and is well supported by all web technologies. If you spend the
money
> on SQL server you are limiting your choices. You are stuck with IIS/NT/ASP
and
> that's it. By going with postgres (for example) you can use java, perl,
python,
> php, tcl etc. You can use all kinds of middleware app servers like Zope,
or
> enhydra. You also would have a choice of many web servers to choose from.
Best
> of all you can use pre built applications and frameworks without having to
write
> them from scratch or paying through the nose.
>
Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 17:01:41 CET