The cost of an Oracle license is not the driver for a platform choice. Percentage wise this is the least of the business drivers when a business decision is made. Having suffered greatly at a previous employer (4 years) and surviving a relentless onslaught of one failed attempt after another to implement Mysql as an Oracle replacement, I can only shake my head at our panic attacks (I suffered a few myself but it quickly dawned that there is still a lot of life left in Larry's dinosaur). Search on DICE for ORACLE DBA : 1177 available slots today (4 PM CDT). Search on DICE for MYSQL inside these results : 26 slots Search on DICE for MYSQL DBA (possible oxymoron here) : 42 slots. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robyn Sent: 4 May 2005 Wednesday 2:23 PM To: DGoulet@xxxxxxxx Cc: Paul Drake; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: Oracle alternatives Dick, Oracle will always be my first love, but I have been dabbling with MySql on the side. Your article, plus a few of your other posts, have gotten me a bit curious about PostGres. What would be the best way to get started learned the specifics? I already have several linux boxen to play with. Got any book recommendations? TIA ... Robyn On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul, > > True, but no more than 2 cpu's and there are other restrictions. > Besides $0 beats $5,000 every time.=20 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:54 PM > To: Goulet, Dick > Cc: Oracle-L Freelists > Subject: Re: Oracle alternatives > > On 5/4/05, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For the benefit of those who may not be able to see the SearchOracle > >site, sorry I was restricted to 600 words or less. Could have gone 10 > >times that without really trying. > >=20 > > Now you want to add in a copy of > > Oracle? Well keep your wallet out cause that's going to set you back > >$15,000 to $40,000 depending on which edition you get Standard or > >Enterprise. Of course there's more to licensing Oracle than that and > I > > could go on and on about that > > FUD. > $5,000 list retail for Standard Edition One. > > next. > > Paul > > perhaps I need to add some ballast to this post so that it does not > blow away into the overquoting area. I really had nothing else to add > to the post and this filler adds nothing at all except enough text to > avoid the lameness filter, without resorting to ASCII art. > Actually, it should no longer be referred to as ASCII art as the > charset used is most certainly no longer US7ASCII. That should be long > enough. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 5/3/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 5/3/2005 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l