On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:52:39 +0000, Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Oracle doesn't have to do much with the price to restore the > natural order of things. It will be enough to cut prices of Oracle SE > on Win2003 to 10% above SQL Server and MS can forget it. For dual proc machines Oracle SEOne and MSSQL are to all intents and purposes identically priced - actually Oracle is probably cheaper as you can buy upgrades as part of the support cost. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l