Re: Semi-OT: MS DB != Oracle DB

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:12:06 +0100

I expect the pluggable database sales pitch has very similar text in it for
12c,.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Rich Jesse <
rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Gah!  Going through licensing for budgeting and I came across this tripe:
>
> http://bit.ly/10MSud5
>
> Full link:
>
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFA3A2D-827B-4A39-A2D4-9907AAA391CA/Alinean_SQL_Server_and_Oracle_TCA_Study.pdf
>
> ...which claims:
>
> "...the corresponding annual cost for administration for these two
> databases
> comes out to $1,605 per year per database for Microsoft SQL Server and
> $7,385 per year per database for Oracle Database..."
>
> Of course, they neglect to define "database", which is drastically
> different
> between the two platforms.
>
> I hate budgeting.
>
> Rich
>
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>


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