Oracle and Unix

[Alexander Staubo]

Off-topic, but I'd like to respond anyway...

In article <7hu9i2$t50$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, kidehen at openlinksw.com says...
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> How can something that is free of charge for 2 concurrent clients and
> 10 database session be insanely expensive ?

Er, because it isn't free when you need more than 10 concurrent database 
sessions -- which is what's needed in an application server environment. 
On your web pages, I notice that a license that permits 200 concurrent 
sessions costs $6,000. This is expensive.

The "insane" part comes when you consider that this price exceeds the 
price of the database server software. And when you consider that you 
need one set of licenses for every client platform, every server platform 
and every database system, it gets pretty extreme. It means I have to add 
$6000+ to the cost of hardware and OS to every system I deploy; likely 
something easily swallowed by large corporations, but not by us, where 
$6000 is usually in excess of what we pay for just the hardware.

On NT, ODBC drivers are (in almost all cases) 100% free of charge, and 
not limited in the number of concurrent database sessions you can 
establish. That's pretty neat.

I'm not questioning the quality of your software. Only the pricing. A 
limit of 10 concurrent database sessions arguably isn't very useful 
except in small-business environments, and for casual testing.

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Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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