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You are absolutely correct. Oracle's getting this price because they can. I wonder how much market share they will lose before Larry switches things around?
When I asked my salescritter about this he said "Well we sure are selling alot of licenses" - Go figure...
Thanks,
Frank
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Patrice J
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:45 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Well,
This is on topic - www.wired.com <http://www.wired.com> today has an article re. IBM announced that it is buying Informix for $1Billion.
Ah, if only I had that kind of money myself - I could take more Oracle courses!
I don't know what will happen with Informix then, does that mean they will gobble it up and DB2 will be the only option in a couple of years?
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
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From: Dennis Taylor [SMTP:ismgr_at_pctc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:57 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Oracle vs DB2
Disclaimer: I am *not* trying to start a religious war, and I am
*not*
trying to advocate DB2. I am simply offended. Thus this post.
As some may remember, I'm doing an evaluation of Oracle vs DB2 vs
SQLServer
to determine our future direction. Here's a datum that makes a
significant
difference to us, dollar-wise.
With Oracle, in order to make a database accessible to the internet
through
a web page, you have to buy an unlimited-user enterprise license. We
had a
senior sales person in our office yesterday, and we asked this
question a
number of different ways. He bobbed and he weaved, but he did not
deny it.
And the quote he supplied afterwards does not address the issue at
all.
Cost of unlimited-user Enterprise version for our installation (your
mileage may vary) = Approx $160,000 Cdn.
IBM, for the same purpose, will sell you DB2 UDB Workgroup edition
(1
user), and something called WE Internet Access, for a total price of
$6000
Cdn. I have a written quote from an IBM salescritter to this effect.
$6000. $160,000. $6000. $160,000. Hm. Let me think.....
I respectfully submit that Oracle's pricing structure is out of line
with
market realities, and may have to undergo significant revision.
Dennis Taylor
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