> It would seemt hat Informix and ORACLE implementations are pretty close
> then - the same goes for ORACLE of course... What sort of licence costs
> are involved in informix - there is ORACLE lite for single licence floating
> around
> $600 or $700 and ORACLE Enterprise for 5 or more licences at about $700
> a licence (ballparks - I don't deal too closely with the pricing stuff)...
Cant help with Informix, but for Oracle I would add the warning not to try this
without a DBA. Oracle Lite is seriously chopped down - no PL/SQL so no
triggers, stored procs etc at all. Oracle Workgroup (or standard Oracle is
around $700 a licence, Enterprise is more like $2000). A very important
distinction between SQL server and Oracle on licensing what is actually licensed.
With SQL Server you have to license every client that will connect to it.
With Oracle you license by connection, so it only maximum no. of simultaneous
connections that has to be licensed. Read your SQL server license document
VERY CAREFULLY if you are connecting it to the web...
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