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Databases as a Commodity

Databases are already becoming a commodity with the extremely competitive pricing (and standards) that is emerging among MSSQL, Oracle, and DB/2. However, you confuse commodity-"ness" and free. Oil and gold and commodities and are nowhere near free. All of the aforementioned databases are superior to MySQL or PostgreSQL, just not free. A business will probably choose one of the commercial packages, especially at these prices. Some other organizations and certainly fanboys with personal websites will choose the free implementations (and I do both, MSSQL/Oracle/Progress on my day job and MySQL for my personal website.)

I hail IBM making their excellent database software available for this price, and for two processors as well. Oracle does not allow more than one processor and MSSQL is twice the price for two processors. DB/2 on a fast two processor system with fast storage can probably support a thousand users at this point for standard business type transaction processing (inventory, order entry, AR/AP, CRM, etc for the web or character/graphic terminals). Who wouldn't consider this a great deal? Why complain?

Posted by: jnonneman   Posted on: 10/19/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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