But financial guys and managers look at this simple overview:
EE (Oracle): $40K per CPU
EE (DB2): $20K per CPU
EE (MS): $20K per CPU
And they might quickly get confused by all sorts of points of views and technical discussions and simply ask: Well, is EE (DB2) or EE (MS) good enough for this project? Because they're only half the price...
Mogens
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MS SQL costing less than Oracle is only partly true. If you load up MS with the extras that constitute a std feature set on Oracle, Oracle is very competitive.Been lots of comparisons on that. Now PostgreSQL and MySQL, those *are* less expensize than MS SQL and Oracle. :) Jared Lyndon Tiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/2003 12:14 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: Oracle License for Training Quoting Ora NT DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Hi All, This conversation didn't start out in dealing with educational institutions, it started out as a group that wants to use it to make money. Oracle is making every effort to work with legitimate education institutions. The Oracle Academic Initiative does exactly what you describe. Institutions pay a small fee (500.00 I think) they are have access to ALL Oracle Software for use in instruction. They also have access to Oracle University Curriculum if desired. more information can be found at: http://oai.oracle.comSounds good. It's not that expensive! I wonder if Oracle instructors cost more than MS SQL instructors that's why most schools (where I am)offer MS SQL?
