On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:18 -0400, Obe, Regina wrote: > > Yes, using SDE effectively castrates the spatial database. It still > > walks and talks, but it's a shell of the man it was before. > > > > >> Ah, but a much cheaper shell than previously available to SDE users > >> (with at least 87%(?) of the performance as I vaguely recall from > some > >> semi-relevant benchmark study)! > It depends which shell you are talking about. If you compare with > Oracle then yes probably so. Since well we know Oracle likes their > customers a lot. >
Yes, I did have Oracle in mind here. > But honestly if you are talking about SQL Server vs. PostgreSQL, I > think the savings you get > > from running PostgreSQL would be dwarfed by the cost of SDE. > > From what I recall we paying for SQL Server 2005 - Standard for Dual > processor (they don't charge for cores and all that nonsense) -- > $10,000 (I think Enterprise is about $20,000 per processor well that > I'm not sure but I recall about half or more of what Oracle charges) > and the cost if you wanted to get SDE ontop of that as I recall > checking way back was $20,000 for SDE for 2 processors alone (so > $30,000). Granted my memory and comparison is a bit dated. > > Now if they charge per Processor as I recall they used to (and god > forbid cores) and you are thinking I can save a pretty penny running > PostgreSQL (with tons of processors) - hmm think again. > > Given- a. the quite substantial costs involved with SDE and b. ESRI's implicit validation of PostgreSQL/PostGIS as a base platform wouldn't it make financial sense for a number of large SDE users to pool some resources to either make SDE - PostGIS multi-master possible (as per my previous post which I'm sure is about to get shot down) or re-implement the SDE API on PostGIS as an open source project? At the very least starting such a project would have to put significant downward pressure on SDE license costs. Let's face it, a spatial database is no longer the exotic beast it once was, and it's about time prices reflected this reality. Spatial is being commoditized and you can't charge a premium for a commodity item. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
