Re: DB2 vs Oracle

In article <3fe5j9$sm5_at_netserv.unmc.edu>, Mike Oswald <moswald_at_unmc.edu> wrote:
>Looking for input from Oracle or DB2 converts.
>
>Recently a friend of mine who has been charged with evaluating Oracle and
>DB2 asked that I post this request to the Internet community for some
>feedback.
>
>They have the test environment setup on a RS/6000 and Oracle was going
>to win out until one of the IBMers told a management type that they would
>have to spend $500K more for hardware for Oracle.

$500K eh? Well, somebody forgot to tell most of us Oracle customers about that. I'm running Oracle 7.1.3 on a $6k sun clone + $4K for more memory and a couple of 1Gb drives (I've got a total of 96Mb memory and 3Gb disk space) and a 4mm dat.

Actually, your hardware requirements are going to be a function of the type of work you exect to perform with the database and not a function of the database system. The net result is that if you need $500k in hardware for an Oracle system, you'll probably need that much for any system you implement.

btw, What did they say that $500K was for?

Mike Marolda - mmarolda_at_onramp.net
Onramp Productions Inc.
http://bristol.onramp.net/ Received on Mon Jan 16 1995 - 18:57:30 CET