[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-02 kl. 05:02, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 12/1/2018 7:41 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> Lots of Oracle Customers looking to find something else these days.
>>
>> One reason - Just way to expensive - especially if one believes the
>> old adage that 80% of Oracle Customers only use 20% of all its
>> available features.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Oracle DB is becoming a super-premium option for those few for who
> money is not an issue.

My customer pays around $3.500 USD a year for 3 systems for Rdb. Not
*that* much for a high quality DB product. It is the value of products
assembled in 5-10 minutes in the factory the system supports.
I do not think that is an "super-premium option".



> 
> With IBM DB2 and MS SQLServer as the normal-premium options and
> all the free stuff (MySQL, PostgreSQL, bunch of NoSQL databases etc.)
> being the base options.
> 
> Arne
>