RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service

[Kevin Kostyszyn]

Title: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service

Man I would love to live in Montana.  All that beautiful land and such...mmmmmmmm....land. 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Weaver, Walt
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service

Well Ross, Our campus is out in the country (just about everywhere in Montana is out in the country) and we are, indeed, surrounded by docile ruminants. I'd like to say that during our off-time we go out and gaze lovingly at their udders, but there are other things we prefer to gaze at lovingly.

 

Of course, we have no problems doing online dairy backups around here. :>)

 

We use MySQL here and yes it's tunable. There's even word out on the street that soon MySQL may support the concept of a transaction. What a concept.

 

MySQL has its place, but it's causing us no end of pain here. It doesn't scale well enough to support what we're doing. That's why we're painfully biting the bullet and paying the big bucks for Oracle.

 

--Walt Weaver

  Bozeman, Montana, USA

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:51 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service

Walt, you have just shattered my picture of you as a gentle man
surrounded by docile ruminants, never uddering a discouraging word.

Yes, it's amazing, the price of the software. My line to folks
is: "For your money, Oracle is the best database...if it were my
money, it would be almost anything but.."

MySQL *is* tunable.....could be fun....

-----Original Message-----
From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:21 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service

Say, is it just me or has the cost of the Updates Subscription Service gone
up considerably in the past six months or so?

We're currently pricing out what it'll cost us to purchase 8.1.7 Standard
Edition and the numbers we're getting are a heck of a lot higher than they
were in November.

Has the cost of CD-ROM's gone up that much? Is the economy now in an
inflationary period? Where's Allen Greenspan when you need him?

Whatever happened to those hazy, golden, halcyon days when upgrades were
included in product support?

Sometimes, Oracle just sucks. I'm seriously considering getting on track for
a MySQL certification.   :>)

--Walt Weaver
  Bozeman, Montana, USA
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