davidc_at_montagar.com wrote:
> Dave Froble wrote:
>> Your problem is that you consider yourself locked into using Oracle.
>> They know that you can run on Linux, probably cheaper than running on
>> VMS, and that this will continue to appeal to you and they'll keep you
>> as a customer. They don't give a damn about your desire to continue to
>> run VMS. You need a non-Oracle option to possibly get their attention.
>
> Exactly -- especially if your database needs can be met (if only
> barely!) by MySQL. Even MS SQL Server on a Windows box (which likely
> would be much cheaper than Oracle) and using unixODBC/freetds on
> OpenVMS to access it.
Just don't have any requirement to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, PIPEDA,
FACTA, HIPAA, BASEL II, or require scalability, performance, or
failover. Works like a charm if you just go back to the 1990s.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 14:01:14 CDT
