Informix fees vary but figure about $33,000 per CPU for a web environment (other licenses are cheaper, for instance, a server with only a handful of connections). On the plus side for Informix, the Oracle stuff we had consists of dozens of tapes and CDs ... Informix was rarely more a CD and much easier to get going.
Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC -----Original Message----- From: Tony and Bryn Reina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 4/2/2004 6:28 AM To: Bradley Kieser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist? > Oracle's main drawbacks are: > a) VERY resource-intensive with a high process startup overhead. > b) VERY expensive. You are talking license fees into the £100 000s for > big iron installations. > Wow! 100,000 pounds for software. Now that is expensive! Is that a ballpark price for most of the commercial DB stuff out there? It would be interesting to see just how expensive (cost of licensing-wise) commercial DBs really are from a side-by-side matchup. -Tony ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
