Oracle is... Roughly 10x worse with much higher costs. Imagine thousands of Oracle Linux VMs running oracle databases, on IBM z/OS PowerPC 42U servers with triple redundant hardware... I maintain a few of those. Pricetags in the tens of millions :/
On Nov 6, 2016 5:37 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s Windows based commercial software. Nice try, James T. Kirk. > > > > Oh, and don’t you mean MariaDB? Is Oracle any less scary than Microsoft? > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds > *Sent:* Sunday, November 6, 2016 4:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SQL Server Express Edition question > > > > Extract the data and push it into mysql/Linux? :) > > > > On Nov 6, 2016 3:47 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anybody understand the licensing model for this? > > > > I have a Windows based legacy mailserver running on Windows Server 2003 > web edition that needs to be updated to a newer version of the OS and to > new hardware. So I don’t believe any CALs are required, but even so, the > price for SQL Server Standard will be a showstopper at something like $3000 > I think? > > > > The limitations seem to be 1GB memory, 10GB database size (per database), > and 1 physical CPU. I see where the server can have more than 1GB memory, > but SQL will be restricted to not using more than 1GB of it. Thankfully, > because who would have that little memory in a server. > > > > But what about the 1 physical CPU. I am wanting to put this on a used > DL380 G7 with dual 6-core CPUs. I can’t find how the single CPU is > enforced. Is it > > > > a) Will refuse to run on a dual CPU machine > > b) Similar to the memory limitation, will run but SQL will only use 1 CPU > > c) Not enforced until Microsoft does an audit and forces me to pay $3000 > plus fines > > > > Oh, and don’t get me going on licensing for Windows Server 2016, that > looks feasless, I assume I need to go with 2012 R2. > >
