Re: Oracle too Expensive ??? Help !!

yeah,

It also does not have tablespace based recovery. But if your application is simple
OLTP, who cares. Just do a cold backup once a week and run in archive mode.

Or do a cold backup everynight and run in archive log mode.

Really depends upon the sophistication you want in your application.

GMAN wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> You overlooked one major thing. Workgroup server doesn't come with parallel
> query, and I'm sure that it doesn't come with some of the other advanced
> options as well.
>
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> Mark Weghorst wrote in message <6s6rak$fa3$1_at_news1.rmi.net>...
> >Michael A Dustin (cybrghst_at_mail.tir.com) wrote:
> >: Hello,
> >
> >: Our company recently checked on the price of Oracle (for
> >: Solaris 2.6) and all the trimmings. For a 15 user (office) license and
> a
> >: web license it came to over 100 grand. After we balked
> >: Oracle came back and offered the bare bones for about
> >: 20 grand.
> >
> >It sounds like the Oracle rep is trying to soak you into buying him a new
> >boat. Don't go along with it, Workgroup server is only $295 per user not
> >including support which is something like 17% of list per year. And with
> >recent advancements in Sun's workgroup servers there is no reason to buy
> >Enterprise unless you need replication. I've seen an E450 with 4 300Mhz
> >CPU's, 2GB of RAM, and a FCAL disk array run every bit as fast as it's
> >enterprise equivalent.
> >
> >I asked a former employer's Business Alliance rep (Oracle's developer
> >program) about the difference, and he indicated that the only diff was
> >replication and the inclusion of EBU on CD which you can dl for free. I
> >also asked about differences in performance, and was told that the only
> >diff was that workgroup isn't available on the biggest servers.
> >
> >For 15 users, workgroup is more than adequate. You also mentioned that
> >this was with all the trimmings, what trimmings? I'm sure people here
> >would be glad to offer their opinion on whether they are necessary.
> >
> >-Mark Weghorst
> >
> >
> >
Received on Sat Aug 29 1998 - 11:06:07 CDT