Re: Oracle vs VB/SQL

Watch out for subtleties such as the fact that nearly **everything** sexy in Oracle 8 is either a cost-option or is only included in the Enterprise Edition.

My gripes to date:

Partitioning - cost option
Objects - cost option
Oracle Enterprise Manager Performance Pack - cost option (including the useful Tablespace Manager!!)
Bit-mapped indexes - only in Enterprise Edition

Hope this is of some use to you

Regards

Mark Griffiths

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:14:59 +0200, "Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:

>Magnus Bergh wrote in message ...
>>
>>I was surprised when I saw the price for Oracle. I would expect it to be
>>much higher but now it is about the same price as MS SQL Server, at least
>>if you don't nuy the Enterprise edition. Oracle 8 for NT 5 users cost
>>about $1100. I think SQL Server goes for about the same price.
>
>Sounds good. The biggest drawback of going the Oracle route has always been
>the price tag. Which is why Oracle is (was?) not often found in smaller
>companies. If they can compete in the pricing arena with SQL-Server, so much
>better.
>
>>I have one question (I am new to Oracle): When and why should you buy the
>>Enterprise edition? What do I get which is not present in the normal
>>version?
>
>Not sure, but I think that you get things like the spatial cartridge,
>context and other stuff included. The best will be is to look at the product
>information pages for the various Oracle servers at www.oracle.com
>
>regards,
>Billy
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 13:15:00 CST