From: Diana Duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:26 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: quotes
Maybe now that I've become a damager and have a budget, I'm seriously considering kicking the Oracle habit. I think they and their ilk helped put a lot of dot-com's out of business through their predatory pricing. DB2 is looking very attractive...and I'm having tons of fun with Postgres at home.;-)The thing is, there is no point in becoming married to any technology. Things change...and a good designer, programmer or DBA can transfer their skills easily, because to be GOOD you have to understand the fundamentals.Sorry, feeling philosophical today...Diana-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:27 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: quotesIsn't that utterly ridiculous. If you didn't call the 2nd server a "failover" server and just manually moved over the filesystems and net address, you wouldn't need a 2nd license! But if you automate the process with failover software, you do! The database and software are only ever going to be on one server at a time so what's the big deal?
Oracle licensing has gotten so ridiculous that at our shop they've pretty much priced themselves out of the picture for all new databases. I suspect my managers aren't the only ones looking more seriously at SQL 2000 these days either. I'd look for Oracle to lose market share over the next 18 months. Not because SQL is better (it isn't), but the price performance ratio is much more acceptable.
Dennis Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just got my oracle quote back. I had asked about backup servers and
failover. To quote the salescritter, "In most cases where an environment
requires a standby failover server, a license will be required..."
Dennis Taylor
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