At one site, I was CIO and we were looking at getting an Oracle system in addition to our Universe system. They had just implemented their new pricing based on number of cpus and power etc. We calculated that it would run 500K.
In addition, we were getting a demo of a product. Very nice product but I figured that you could drop Pick in underneath it and it would work just fine. I asked the salesman how much of that $1,850 per user their company got and how much Oracle was really charging. I was told that the software company only got $250 per user - Oracle got the rest. Eugene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Waldie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: RE: Subject: RE: [U2] Cost of Oracle vs PICK > Thanks, James. > That's a thorough explanation. > > I don't know 1st-hand what a copy of Oracle costs (+ user licenses & > maint.), but from what I've heard, the cost difference alone would make > me lean more toward giving Unidata a shot - especially considereing most > schools don't have a lot of money to play around with. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yeatrakas,James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Subject: RE: [U2] Cost of Oracle vs PICK > > .... > effort they are expending on this is the kind of response that other > companies in the same predicament might consider to stay viable in the > 21st century. I believe had they not chosen this path, competitors with > less name recognition, but with more 'current' technology would have > begun to steal their market. This was borne out by the grumbling at the > user group conferences. Now at least, the users are willing to see what > they come up with for the future. Though not what you would consider a > 'developer' I have enough experience working with SQL to know I much > prefer writing code in UniBasic (RevBasic?) then PLSQL or doing > interminable joins when I could be building simple Symbolics. > .... > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
