I'm doing some research for a talk and am interested in hearing from people who are running (or have run) transaction processing systems on both U2 and SQL Server. What are your intuitions and/or facts about the differences in cost of ownership between these two environments? Do you think the COA of each environment is roughly the same or is one less than the other? A short answer to that question would be helpful, but if you have a chance, more details would also be appreciated.
Some categories might be: 1) Ease in learning & training 2) Actual hard costs in the budget for the software 3) How much hardware is required for each: cpu, memory, disk, bandwidth, ... 4) User access (24/7) and related costs 5) Reliability, risk of downtime, risk of data loss, time it takes to recover from unscheduled downtime 6) Number or fraction of professionals required to support a production environment in each (and/or lists of what tasks are required on an on-going or periodic basis) 7) Cost of optional and 3rd party add-ins 8) End-User Satisfaction 9) IT User Satisfaction 10) Ease, speed, & quality of new software development & maintenance of existing in-house software 11) Vendor support 12) Reporting -- Ease of getting the data back out; e.g. use of 3rd party tools; are more data marts required in one environment than the other? 13) Cost of establishing or maintaining security / access 14) Cost of backups 15) Performance Do you have any facts or intuitions about these categories? What other categories should I be thinking about? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. --dawn -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. Take and give some delight today! ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
