Informix fees vary but figure about $33,000 per CPU for a web environment (other licenses are cheaper, for instance, a
serverwith only a handful of connections). On the plus side for Informix, the Oracle stuff we had consists of dozens of
tapesand CDs ... Informix was rarely more a CD and much easier to get going.
Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony and Bryn Reina [mailto:reina_ga@hotmail.com]
Sent: Fri 4/2/2004 6:28 AM
To: Bradley Kieser
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
> Oracle's main drawbacks are:
> a) VERY resource-intensive with a high process startup overhead.
> b) VERY expensive. You are talking license fees into the £100 000s for
> big iron installations.
>
Wow! 100,000 pounds for software. Now that is expensive! Is that a ballpark
price for most of the commercial DB stuff out there? It would be interesting
to see just how expensive (cost of licensing-wise) commercial DBs really are
from a side-by-side matchup.
-Tony
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