RE: Coke switches to DB2!!
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>, <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:45:39 -0400
"The idea of the above feature was perhaps to steal some existing oracle
customers and motivate them to move to db2 as db2 is cheaper."
A very subjective statement that many sales people like to toss around.
Some years ago a former colleague was asked to do a cost assessment on
the three major database players, Oracle, DB2, and Sql*Server. Took him
3 months to accumulate and compile the data into something that was
understandable and even handed. But in the end he found that the total
cost of ownership of products was a wash. The difference that the sales
droids like to play to is the initial purchase cost. Then come the
add-ons and other assorted sundry items that make the system truly
usable and manageable. His basic point was that although IBM &
Microslop nickel & dime you into submission, Oracle just hit you over
the head with a baseball bat from the get go.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International
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