Re: Workgroup Edition with HDR

Fernando Nunes wrote: > Neil Truby wrote: > >> I'm interested to know how you'll save money by "trading down". You can't >> get a refund on the Enterprise licences you presumably already own. >> >> > > The annual support will be cheaper. I don't really know if you can exchange > existing licenses... > As it turned out, it will not save any money. Yes the support would save us money, but it would take many years to make back the expense of re-purchasing initial licenses. The hardware limits of Workgroup would not have been a problem for us. We are a smallish company with pretty basic OLTP needs. I guess I'll just keep waiting for the day when I can feel comfortable migrating to an open source database...

"Jeff" <nobody@localhost> wrote in message news:467c2a42@news.mcleodusa.net... > Fernando Nunes wrote: >> Neil Truby wrote: >> >>> I'm interested to know how you'll save money by "trading down". You >>> can't get a refund on the Enterprise licences you presumably already >>> own. >>> >> >> The annual support will be cheaper. I don't really know if you can >> exchange existing licenses... >> > > As it turned out, it will not save any money. Yes the support would save > us money, but it would take many years to make back the expense of > re-purchasing initial licenses. Usually the maintenance renewal cost of EE licence is the same as the cost of buying a new WGE one, so it might be cost-neutral in year one at best, but you should be quids in by year two. > The hardware limits of Workgroup would not have been a problem for us. We > are a smallish company with pretty basic OLTP needs. Does a smallish company with pretty basic OLTP needs really need a box with more than 4 cores and 8g of memory?