At 09:46 AM 4/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Problem is, if you use cost as your deciding factor and not can it support
>what you want to do then you are going to end up paying a lot more in the
>end.  We have Oracle here licensed on 3 different platforms, all of them 
>the Enterprise version plus unlimited clients blah blah blah and its still
>a small chunk of what we pay in.  Promis is over 1 million.  I am not saying
>buy Oracle regardless of the price.  I am saying don't not buy Oracle
>because

Um. Sorry, I left some very relevant information out of my rants, I guess.
I've already determined that for what we want, DB2 is just fine. Heck, we
could get by with SQLServer if I was feeling adventurous enough. Yeah, when
you need every last ounce of horsepower, cost is less of a factor, but
that's not us.



Dennis Taylor
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