Getting back to the original point; I anticipate this all to have no impact on
per core Oracle licensing costs.
I'm simply much more pessimistic that the current market will shift as much as
you anticipate.
Where we agree is that only time will tell.
On Mar 7, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/07/2016 07:57 PM, Ryan January wrote:
The next logical step is how many companies running SAP (or any other MS SQLThe problem is that Windows Server was not really popular in the server
based application) will jump to MS SQL now that it's running on Linux? That
seems like a small market to me.
I'd argue that it still changes nothing as MS SQL server is already an
option for that software.
market. Linux, on the other hands, rules the enterprise server rooms. SQL
Server already is an alternative on Windows and SQL Server mostly rules the
Windows market. Now, it may well come to rule the Linux market. Only time
will tell. If MS plays their hand well, they can capture a lion share of the
Linux market. You have to admit that having to pay $11K/CPU thread for
creating a partitioned table or creating multiple databases is a bit
ridiculous, not to mention "performance and tuning pack" licenses.
As I have said, all those auditing raids haven't won Oracle many friends. I
expect quite a few companies to switch to SQL Server, primarily smaller and
medium companies, as well as smaller to medium application providers.
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Mladen Gogala
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