Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 17, 2003 06:45 AM
...it's pretty damn expensive! Let's say you buy a dual-CPU Dell Poweredge server in the UK - that sets you back about 5,000 pounds for a good setup to run Oracle on (RAID 5, redundant power supply, 3-4GB RAM).
But wait, the cheapest Oracle on that Linux platform is 20,000 pounds (double that if you need the "Enterprise Edition" version) - a mere 4 times the cost of the hardware (and about 10% of that per year recurring costs for upgrades - more if you want their higher levels of support).
To be honest, for small and medium businesses, Oracle is a very expensive part of the DB server equation and they would probably be better off looking at some of the free SQL DBs out there (FirebirdSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and so on) unless their DB is going to be huge.
As for Oracle only submitting fixes to Linux that make Oracle run better, I think that's perfectly acceptable - they don't sell their own Linux distro and they haven't written any major non-Oracle-related apps for Linux. Surely it's a good thing to have a major company like Oracle fine-tuning Linux so that it runs DBs better - the aforementioned Open Source DN projects can benefit from Oracle's improvements too!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 17, 2003 06:45 AMBut wait, the cheapest Oracle on that Linux platform is 20,000 pounds (double that if you need the "Enterprise Edition" version) - a mere 4 times the cost of the hardware (and about 10% of that per year recurring costs for upgrades - more if you want their higher levels of support).
To be honest, for small and medium businesses, Oracle is a very expensive part of the DB server equation and they would probably be better off looking at some of the free SQL DBs out there (FirebirdSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL and so on) unless their DB is going to be huge.
As for Oracle only submitting fixes to Linux that make Oracle run better, I think that's perfectly acceptable - they don't sell their own Linux distro and they haven't written any major non-Oracle-related apps for Linux. Surely it's a good thing to have a major company like Oracle fine-tuning Linux so that it runs DBs better - the aforementioned Open Source DN projects can benefit from Oracle's improvements too!
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