Ryan Comparing the costs are very difficult. You must carefully verify you have included all the costs, such as support. Oracle has Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. Microsoft has Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. From my analysis, they are not comparable (SE to SE or EE to EE). If you are considering MS SQL, you have probably decided you don't need the features of Oracle EE. If you feel you don't need the features in Microsoft EE you should probably consider MySQL. Therefore I feel that for most sites the comparison comes down to Oracle SE vs. MS SQL EE. If you factor in all the support costs, I found that Oracle SE was actually a little cheaper than MS SQL EE. I did that comparison over a year ago, so the prices may be slightly different today. And in your situation one or both vendors may be willing to reduce their price.
Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L what is the difference in cost between sql server and oracle? oracle claims its similiar due to sql server needing more hard ware. now that is probably bull in low end system, but is it accurate in high end systems? ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:24 PM > My company it's moving all the development efforts to > SQL Server because the customers don't want to pay > Oracle licenses anymore.. > > Gabriel > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Gabriel Aragon > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ryan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
