RE: HP Stimulus Package

No argument there. I'm sure someone will come up with a configuration
that will show it not to be but generally it is the most expensive DB to
have - but thank goodness HP is letting us know it isn't
proprietary.....and thankfully their add is accurate.....

Oh wait...I think I just said something inaccurate. :-)


Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: RE: HP Stimulus Package

I had been led to believe that Oracle was damned expensive, more so than
any
competitor system.

What is the cost for WAS/Express?

Complex? Well, you have a possible argument on that one.

Over time, your company's critical data and business process have

become >locked into the proprietary, low-level structures of the

DB2/400

database.

Proprietary? You can get into a *&^%$# contest on this subject
matter but I'd argue that Oracle is the most proprietary DB alive.

Michael Crump