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Maybe
now that I've become a damager and have a budget, I'm seriously considering
kicking the Oracle habit. I think they and their ilk helped put a lot of
dot-com's out of business through their predatory pricing. DB2 is looking
very attractive...and I'm having tons of fun with Postgres at
home.
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The
thing is, there is no point in becoming married to any technology. Things
change...and a good designer, programmer or DBA can transfer their skills
easily, because to be GOOD you have to understand the
fundamentals.
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Sorry,
feeling philosophical today...
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size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Chuck Hamilton
[mailto:chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com]Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:27
AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re:
quotes
Isn't that utterly ridiculous. If you didn't call the 2nd server a
"failover" server and just manually moved over the filesystems and net
address, you wouldn't need a 2nd license! But if you automate the process with
failover software, you do! The database and software are only ever going
to be on one server at a time so what's the big deal?
Oracle licensing has gotten so ridiculous that at our shop they've pretty
much priced themselves out of the picture for all new databases. I suspect my
managers aren't the only ones looking more seriously at SQL 2000 these days
either. I'd look for Oracle to lose market share over the next 18 months. Not
because SQL is better (it isn't), but the price performance ratio is much more
acceptable.
Dennis Taylor <ismgr_at_pctc.com> wrote:
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got my oracle quote back. I had asked about backup servers andfailover.
To quote the salescritter, "In most cases where an environmentrequires a
standby failover server, a license will be required..."Dennis
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