Re: What does Oracle cost?

In <418phc$sj_at_newsbf02.news.aol.com> bobnight_at_aol.com (BobNight) writes:

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>In addition to the cost of the engine itself, you'll need to set aside
>monies for contract labor and software tools, such as report writers, a
>performance monitor, a defragmentation tool, desktop database
>administration tool and other things from 3rd parties. Oracle will be
>glad to give you utilities for "free" (or as part of the purchase price
 of >the engine). This is true for all database vendors.
>

Yo, guys! Let us not forget to budget the all-important *training* for all of the above tools! You'll need to have someone (or two or three, etc.) trained in Database Administration and Tuning, then the core IS staff may need a RDBMS Concepts class, if they're not familiar with that. If they are, then they'll need: SQL & SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL as a minimum.

Next, if they're going to be using Forms and Reports, they'll need to get up to speed on both of those. A GUI Design and Standards class would be a good idea at this point, as well.

These are just the basics, but right here you're looking at about 3 solid weeks of training, minimum. You can send your folks to Oracle at $350 a day per student (their classes tend to be a bit longer), or any of a number of reputable training organizations that can do the same job, at about half the price. (I happen to run one of them.)

This is an important part of your budgeting that you must build into your estimates. As the man at the automotive garage says: "You can pay now, or you can pay later." Better to arm your folks with the necessary skills up front, then have them frustrated and learning by (costly) trial-and-error methods.

Best of luck to you!

Jennifer Blair, President
Blair Technical Training
Alexandria, VA
BTT_at_ix.netcom.com Received on Tue Aug 22 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST