From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle Subject: Re: Oracle Pricing Costs are Absurdly High Date: 5 May 1994 03:43:46 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2q9q1i$t48@crcnis1.unl.edu> References: <1994Apr21.143629.3068@eisner> <2pripu$9pq@crl2.crl.com> <2q93ec$fno@galaxy.ucr.edu> Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu dleung@corsa.ucr.edu (Chi-Wai Leung) writes: :Yes, I agree :Oracle, Sybase, Informix , Ingres are charging too much , especially :for unix platformm. :It is almost impossible for medium to small company to use :some "Decent" software. :But other cheaper database product like Dataflex (4GL) , is not :too good. I find this somewhat ironic. It reminds me of a sign I saw once: Cheap, Fast, Accurate. Choose any 2. --- Michael Nolan, Sysop for the DBMS RoundTable on GEnie nolan@notes.tssi.com, dbms@genie.geis.com (posted from nolan@helios.unl.edu) >DOM