Hi Folks, Take a deep breath and see how much an Oracle license is for a Solaris box with 4 cpus, AFAIK start looking in the thousands of dollars. Try SQL server, Sybase or Informix. None of the above mentioned are particularly cheap, some of these are costing over $595.00 per seat not per unit.
IMHO $595.00 for an unlimited user configuration is not bad at all. Granted most users tend to be in the X86 world where hardware is cheap but lets look at the commercial reality of it all, $595.00 is not that bad considering the general backup and support along with the feature set that you receive. BTW it is only $295.00 if you don't want InnoDB. Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 148 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 - Work +61 417 268 665 - Mobile +61 8 8408 4259 - Fax -----Original Message----- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Pat Ballard'; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: license question Yeah. It's silly. The whole hardware x86 1U rack mount we use with 2.4Ghz proc, 256MB, 40GB HD, dual Gbps NICs is only $500. I don't know what crack the mySQL AB guys are smoking to think that they are competitive. We've already started to wrap our product SQL calls in our own API so we can migrate to Postgress (or something with an acceptable license). > -----Original Message----- > MySql loses money from many vendors on this very point. Of > which they do not budge. > > We have a Point of Sale software company who can distribute > Oracle cheaper. > They only require a percentage of the final product price > that their product > is packaged with. When the company explained they would > rather use MySql an pay them the same rates MySql refused. > This license is a ridiculous $600 per unit which makes it completely > unrealistic for any large scale deployment!!! I mean, I don't > mind paying > someone for their work, but I was thinking more like $50 per > unit, not > 10 times that. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
