Re: oracle v SS

Certainly not free, same with plsql mentioned earlier, all these use the "licensed" cpu power which costs you about 100K €/$ per processor definition (counting common enterprise options) initial license and 1/4 of that each year thereafter.
Andre

On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 16:50 Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> One major thing (to me) that everybody has neglected to mention so far, is
> application development.
>
> To me, Apex is far superior (and free) to anything Microsoft has. That has
> always been one of my criteria, which back-end system has the best option
> for applications and application development. If you have an overly
> complication application that cost big bucks, and your organization is
> always using contractors to come in fix different parts, or to add new
> features, because they are too cheap to have in-house knowledge, Oracle and
> Apex may be the best contender. Most DBA's can fairly easily create fairly
> complex Apex apps with just their PL/SQL knowledge.
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 6:40 PM Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You’re right. Thomas couldn’t have been the original PM for PL/SQL
>> because he joined in 1996. He was at one point a PM for it.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 7:04 PM, Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Could be.
>>
>> I worked with Dan after he left Oracle, where he told everyone he had
>> been the product manager for PL/SQL. As PL/SQL was introduced in 1989 in
>> Oracle v6, and we worked together in 1992, it seemed possible. It is
>> probable he was a developer on the team, now that I consider it.
>>
>> I wrote about working with him in the chapter "Bad CaRMa
>> <https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/bad-carma/>"
>> in the book "Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Insights-Tales-Oak-Table/dp/1590593871>",
>> where Dan was identified as "Randy".
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/19 2:53 PM, Thomas Roach wrote:
>>
>> I was told it was Thomas Kurian.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 5:36 PM, Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com>
>> <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Dan Klein
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, 14:18 Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Pop quiz. Who was the original product manager for PL/SQL?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> > On Nov 8, 2019, at 4:51 PM, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman <dbakevlar_at_gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
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