Re: Database market is saturated fully, there is no more room!!

You may be wrong please go to this site and click on 'Databases' :- http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml

Michael Segel wrote:
>
> Mats Wichmann wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:55:05 +0000, Michael Segel
> > <mikey_at_segel.NO.SPAM.KINGOFMYDOMAIN.SPAM.NO.com> wrote:
> >
> > >There is a thing called TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
> > [SNIP]
 
> > With many TCO estimates for a system being in the hundreds of
> > thousands of dollars, the effect of the acquisition cost of the O.S.
> > ($50 to $2000, let's say -- even a "free" download costs something) is
> > of minimal impact. Once you start looking at the availability of
> > applications and the time to deploy them I'm not sure the equation
> > favors Linux any longer.
>
> Sigh.
> Not every company is looking to acquire a room full of HP T500 or Sun
> 1000's.
> And we are not talking about that.
>
> What we are talking about is an Intel based niche.
> Typical Server configurations are around 6-7K depending on the number of
> SCSI cards, and
> disks. (Also processor speed, SMP capable, etc ...)
>
> Take a hard look at your options for Intel based OSs. Mach, BSD, Linux,
> Solaris, SCO/Unixware,
> NT, .... Now take a look the price tag. NT = $748 plus additional
> software, SCO=1K for
> runtime plus development tools. Solaris? Well you get my idea.
>
> So, OS goes for 1K on average. (With NT you have to increase the number of
> clients, add a mail
> server, ....) 1K on a 8K purchase (Hardware and OS) is 12.5% per unit.
>
> Now when we are talking about distributed data within a large operation,
> you then have to
> multiple sites. Those 1K savings do add up.
>
> As to the software availability, it is a problem to some, but not to
> others.
> It depends on your application. As a web server, Apache and Netscape run
> on Linux.
> (Thats roughly covers 65% of the market.) There exists office suites, and
> other packages
> like MATLIB (I think), Mathematica, ..... the list goes on. Granted, your
> needs may not
> be met, but others are. What is Linux missing? A market leading RDBMS. One
> which is
> compatible to the rest of the enterprise.

You may be wrong please go to this site and click on 'Databases' :- http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml

>
> So Linux may be the best choice for some, not others. Over time,
> applications will be built.
> But if you are writing custom apps, as long as the tools exist, then you
> will succeed.
>
> I hope this helps in your understanding of the *linux phenomenon*.
>
> Mikey
Received on Wed Feb 18 1998 - 00:00:00 CST