Re: License pricing
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 01:06:07 -0500
Message-ID: <56DE6BCF.4080408_at_gmail.com>
On 03/07/2016 09:30 PM, Iggy Fernandez wrote:
> The MS SQL adept administrators and developers are adept in Windows
> administration so I don't see them advocating SQL Server on Linux.
> But time will tell. Maybe Windows administrators are clamoring to
> leave the Windows platform.
>
> Iggy
>
Or, Oracle guys like me, fairly skilled with Linux could help them
bridge the gap. It wouldn't be the first time in my life, either. In the
mid-eighties, I was sort of VMS guru, teaching people how to tune VMS,
secrets of DCL and VAX assembly language. DEC was the second largest IT
company in the world, far larger than the newcomer Intel. In 1993. once
mighty DEC ceased to exist and I've forgotten everything about VAX/VMS.
I even used to run Emacs in EDT mode, for easier transition. Now, I
gladly use the editor of the beast.
To quote the late Yogi Berra, it's a deja vu all over again. If people
pay me, I will gladly help them transition from Oracle to SQL Server on
Linux. To tell the truth, I have helped with a few Oracle --> DB2
transitions. Oracle is just a company, it's database exists to bring
money to share holders. On my site, there are tables from the schema
SCOTT, in a format that makes them easy to import into DB2:
http://mgogala.byethost5.com/scott.tar.bz2
DB2MOVE is DB2 export/import utility and the tables are prepped to being
imported in the schema of your choice. You would be surprised how
quickly former Oraclites catch up when they have something familiar to
play with. Did I mention that DB2 v10 can execute PL/SQL natively?
Oracle Corp. has changed a lot since I was the first person certified to
teach Oracle 6 in the EMEA region. The pricing is ridiculous. On a small
4 core machine, you have to pay $11k/Core for EE, $11K/Core for
partitioning, 11k/Core for advanced compression and $10k/core for
tuning+diagnostic pack. That is $43k/Core or $172k for the machine. And
I haven't even mentioned the ridiculous multi-tenant option, active data
guard or real application testing.
I don't really care who pays me, I am a hired gun. And I don't mind
helping customers move to another platform, not at all. I sense an
opportunity. I've learned DB2, SQL Server will not be a problem, not at
all. I sense an opportunity here.
The opportunity will even be better if there is a price war and Oracle
drops its ridiculous licensing. I don't work for Oracle Corp. and I
don't really care.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Tel: (347) 321-1217 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Mar 08 2016 - 07:06:07 CET