Re: Pro's & Con's on Oracle & SQL Svr?

> I can't think of any criteria I care less about when deciding on an RDBMS
 than
> cost.

You're obviously not in upper management.

> Then ... and only then ... do I start worrying about the cost of the
 hardware,
> the cost of the O/S, the cost of the RDBMS, the cost of the sysadmins, the
 cost
> of DBAs and the cost of developers.
> It doesn't matter what it costs if it doesn't work as a long-term
solution.

And hence the management-sys designer disagreement is born. Couple that with what someone reads in a magazine about the (lower) costs of whatever other database server, and you now have to worry about cost :-).

I did not say cost should be the most important thing, but that it is definitely an issue, how important depends on what your place is in the company. Received on Sat Mar 31 2001 - 10:43:18 CST