RE: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

The cost reductions I have seen thrown around are a lot higher than $8k. One customer I installed Oracle on Linux said the cost of the Dell hardware was equal to the annual maintenance on their Sun box. That means new Dell servers every year at no costs, right:-)

We all know that the true cost is in the maintenance and upgrading of a system. Back in my development days, they said the overall cost of a piece of software, factoring in maintenance, was 10x the development costs.

Linux is cheaper for their budget now. Most don't see the long term costs.

Bryan

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Subject: Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

• Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
  > On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
  > > What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
  >
  > Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well.
  As
  > a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred
  concurrent
  > sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
  > (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
  > available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
  >
  > Niall Litchfield
  

That hardware cost "reduction" is irrelevant when you figure the rest of the cost to run a fairly decent size shop on ORACLE.

And when a shop has close 1 MIL in license and support fees the lousy 8K are not even a drop of water in the bucket.

And then 4 years later there's the mighty APPS upgrade and here you are on a fluid-always-changing platform (Linux), shoot in the foot, having to work twice
as hard for what? For a lousy 8K reduction in the initial cost of hardware that is already obsolete anyway?

• Vitaliy -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l

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