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At 10:46 AM 4/24/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Not true. You can use the Standard Edition for serving web pages. We're
>doing it.
Yep. I've corrected myself on that in another email.
>One thing I don't get: it's $6,000 Cdn for a 1-user license, right? How is a
>1-user license going to do you any good if you're serving web pages? Just
>interested in how the WE Internet Access works.
The 1-user license + WE = a legal DB2 web-database. This according to the IBM salescritter. Got it on paper, too. :-)
>We had some IBM guys in here late last year, and they couldn't give us any
>better pricing than what we could get Oracle Standard Edition for.
Times change. My salescritter is saying that in some cases, IBM is *giving* DB2 away, if there's enough ancilliary business (hardware, consulting, etc).
I guess I should add a disclaimer to my rant at this point. We are a small shop. I mean *SMALL* shop. 30 people in the company. 30K for a web database may be peanuts for a fortune 500 company, but for us, it's significant. YMMV.
Dennis Taylor
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