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> -----Original Message----- > From: Server Dave > > Joe, > Without spending a great deal of time You spent time cutting and pasting Microsoft marketing stuff here. You spent time posting unsubstantiating information. Please spend a little time typing something useful. > -this info is backed up in print No, it's not. That's why I asked. DB2, in all benchmarks I've read, blows the doors off Oracle and SQL Server. I was wondering what information you had that change that? > You can buy the software out for a token cost of around $249 US. This is a 10-user developer license. How much does it cost to handle 1000 users? SQL Server costs either $20,000 per server, or about $450 per client, depending on your licensing choice. How many SQL servers does it take to handle 1000 users? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Pluta" > > > Can you back any of these statements up with facts? > > > > Things like "beats Oracle hands down", or "about as good as DB2/400"? > What > > features? > > > > Or "scales nicely"? On what platform? What database size? How many > users? > > Have you run any of the standard transaction load tests, such > as TPC-C or > > TPC-H? > > > > Or even "a fraction of the price". How do you calculate that? Initial > > cost? Ongoing cost? Total cost of ownership? Cost/transaction? For > what > > size database? 10MB? 100MB? 1GB? 1TB? > > > > Joe > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Server Dave > > > > > > As a general rule from now on I would only recomend SQL2000 Enterprise > for > > > any new > > > applications-It beats Oracle hands down,has all the bells and whistles > > > management tools/dev enviroment that Oracle has not got yet. > > > Its aboubt as good as DB2/400 but is far cheaper and scales > nicely at a > > > fraction of the cost.
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