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Re: Market Share

Posted in 1995

Topics: Licensing & Editions

Christian Drauch — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> > >> > >> In article <4aqbql$428@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, > >> tkyte@us.oracle.com (Thomas J Kyte) wrote: > >> >Would you put Online and SE in the same catagory? Are they the same caliber. > >> > > >Maybe not, and about ORACLE Workgroup Server and Oracle7 Server? > > what about it? > > same database, same features, same architecture, same code. write an app on one > and it runs unchanged on the other. one is licensed for departmental lans and > one is licensed for larger implementations. > > besides I put up 1994 UNIX marketshare as evaluated by IDC. I not sure if NT, > OS2, and Novell would count or not. > > Workgroup Server is the same as Oracle7 (it is Oracle7). It is a licensing > issue. > > Thomas Kyte > tkyte@us.oracle.com > Oracle Government > First, ORACLE Workgroup Server is also available on SCO (ODT/Unix), which should be the #1 pc-based UNIX. But maybe you could explain me, why Workgroup per-user-license is only nearby half of Oracle7 price? I would have to pay for Workgroup Server (5 user) + 3 concurrent user USD 3000 Oracle7 on low end, pc systems, 8 users USD 5000 values calculated from a german distributor. Features like parallel query, parallel server, replication, distributed option are all optional and not part of Oracle7 RDBMS. You mean that is should only be a licensing issue - Why? I pay for users and options - or does that mean, Workgroup can't hold massive data like Oracle7 or has function restraints? I'm sorry about discussing Oracle pricing and products there - I just want to show, that different products like INFORMIX SE and ONLINE seems to exist for Oracle too (apparently, Thomas J Kyte can't accept SE as part of Informix's market share). -- Chris Drauch ...................................................................... . c/o DRAUCH Ges.m.b.H. Tel. 43/ 3135/46387-0 . . Gewerbestrasse 5 Fax 43/ 3135/4638728 . . A-8071 Hausmannstaetten EMail cdr@xteam.co.at . ...................................................................... OK, I will shut up now on this thread. But would be happy, if Thomas J Kyte or anybody from Oracle would answer my questions directly.