i cannot comment on possible future directions but that is akin to asking if Microsoft will make Office and the OS free and just charge for support.
Proprietary pricing is not exclusive to Oracle, and the huge closed source market proves that it is a valid business model and that clients will pay premium prices for enterprise functionality. It's like a bicycle and a Benz S500. If you just want to get from A to B and don't mind sweating, go for the bicycle (or do open source). Feature sets are so far apart that a real technical comparison is meaningless. On 3/19/09, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there are possible market state where Oracle will zero the > license-to-use price and only charge for support? > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Sun actually positions MySQL as an Oracle replacement in some cases, >> and you ought to check out their support contract pricing.. the >> comparison is more relevant than you guys think. >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, joebert jacaba <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> I think its unfair to compare Oracle 10 or 11g to Postgres. There are >>>> a lot of verticals that Oracle cover that Postgres probably doesn't >>>> because of market demand. A more appropriate comparison would probably >>>> be OracleXE to PostgreSQL. >>>> >>> >>> And is it fair to compare it to MySQL? >> >> >> >> -- >> Orlando Andico >> +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
