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I just bought 3 STANDARD UPC server licenses for our site. We saved 275K by not using Enterprise. Email me if you want the details. Walt is right, they are lying to you. (The concept of trusting salespersons for technical issues is inherently wrong.)
HTH,
Todd Carlson
Oracle 8i Certified DBA
Bunge Corporation
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That's absolutely not true, Dennis. We've purchased Oracle Standard Edition for serving web pages, and no one at Oracle told us we could not.
I think you need to find some other salescritters. You're being taken for a ride.
--Walt Weaver
Bozeman, Montana, USA
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 1:46 PM
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At 01:13 PM 4/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
> But, I believe your comparing apples to oranges. DB2 UDB Workgroup is
not
>the equal of Oracle Enterprise. If you want to compare apples & apples,
try
Yes, but in order to put an Oracle database on the web, I HAVE TO USE ENTERPRISE EDITION! The salescritters say so. It has to be unlimited users. To repeat: I cannot (legally) put an Oracle database on an internet-accessible web page unless it is an unlimited-user (power-units-based) Enterprise edition version of Oracle. Let me put it another way: I HAVE TO USE ENTERPRISE EDITION!
Now, it may be that every salescritter I've talked to is wrong about that, but if so, what can I do? Reach through the phone, grab them by the throat, and demand answers? (Not to say I don't *want* to....)
I'm not actually comparing apples to oranges if you look at it from my POV: I'm comparing the lowest cost to do what I want using Oracle, to the lowest cost to do what I want using DB2. If Oracle demands that I use Enterprise Edition with unlimited users, then that's their price.
Dennis Taylor
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