RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i

[Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Smith Colin-WCCS07 wrote:

> It just doesn't make sense to spend a fortune on $20,000 of Oracle licensing
> and then stick it on low end $2,000 hardware. As the bloke says, go for a
> lower end db system like MySQL or PostgreSQL or a higher end server box.

$20,000 worth of oracle is hardly enough to put it on a Pentium 200.
Oracle is about a few grands for base install with one or two developpers
allowed on the prod DB, and then $75/MHz. So a Pentium 500 = $37,500!
(I'm talkin licences for an internet server with unlimited
users/sessions...)

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