On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Winelfred G. Pasamba <[email protected]> wrote: > so, if i have a system that runs with mysql or postgresql, what are > the business benefits of having it also run with oracle? > does it make sense to raise the price if the client opt to use oracle?
It depends. Ramcar for example is running on Postgresql. But if they want to use Demantra demand-planning software, they may have to get Oracle licenses. Generally people moving from Free software to closed-source do so for these reasons: 1) they need some proprietary software that doesn't run on Free (e.g. SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Infor, Baan.....) 2) they need additional functionality (e.g. that shopping cart you built on LAMP, now needs to talk to MasterCard, so you need PCI and SOX compliance) 3) they need additional scaling / disaster recovery / high availability (here we go again: MySQL Cluster does scale horizontally, but it has its own set of limitations not least of which is it is memory-based so if you have five years' worth of transactions it may not fit in memory) 4) the CIO got nervous about running the heart of the business on Free software > or do those clients who can pay for an oracle license belong to the > market where SAP, Oracle, & others dominate? Oracle comes in several flavors. Standard Edition and SE1 (which bundle RAC for free) cost about the same as MS SQL Server and even less than the cost of Enterprise Support for MySQL. Enterprise Edition costs a whole lot. But when you consider that a SAP or PeopleSoft deployment is in the multi-millions of dollars, the Oracle licensing cost is far from the largest cost. A certain large local bank recently bought millions (of $) worth of Oracle for their card system... but they bought more than 2X as much worth of hardware and who knows how much for the application itself (the DB and hardware are just infrastructure). > why is oracle focusing on linux? does this mean big companies are > starting to not-want-to-pay other platforms? No it's because Oracle can control the entire stack: virtualization manager, operating system, database, middle tier, and application. With other OS you have multiple necks to strangle, so some companies want to talk to just one supplier, although that's not usually the case. > of course we know that the percent of product revenue is going down in > comparison to support revenue, except maybe for microsoft and adobe.* This is not true. The bulk of Oracle's revenue still comes from license sales. > is it still true that IBM is still the largest database vendor?* This has not been true for at least ten years. -- 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
