Developing for the future - SQL*Server

[Bruce Schuck]

Oracle (in my opinion) is a lot harder to maintain than SQL Server.

And the combination of SQL 2000 and Windows 2003 owns the TPC-C
price/performance chart.

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp

And I think that combination is a LOT cheaper than Oracle. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]
> On Behalf Of Azsapper@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:16 PM
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: Re: Developing for the future - SQL*Server
> 
> The fact that you'd be stuck on Windows-based servers is reason enough to
> look at alternatives. My guess is that Oracle would be competitively
> priced, and
> your choice of server platforms is a lot more flexible.
> 
> In a message dated 10/2/03 1:22:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> guy.werry@hbms.ca writes:
> 
> > We've recently been discussing future development.  Our current
> Powerhouse /
> >  HP-Ux environment may not be the proper platform for the development
> being
> >  looked at: long story, don't know if I can get into specifics
> publically.
> >
> >  So, the discussion has been about doing something in MS Access (user's
> >  idea).  We (I.T. folks) don't like this because of scalability issues,
> >  learning curves, etc.  An alternative idea was MS SQL*Server, which is
> a
> >  real database.
> >
> >  What to develop in was the next question.  From some of the discussions
> that
> >  I've seen on this list in the last while, it looks like Axiant or PH
> Web on
> >  top of SQL*Server is working well for people.  Is this the case?
> >
> >  One of our consideration is that we have Powerhouse expertise; some
> Oracle
> >  Forms/SQL experience also, but I don't know what the costs would be
> like
> for
> >  the tools and I'm sure that the database admin / purchase costs would
> be
> >  much better with SQL*Server.
> >
> >  Whaddya think?
> >
> >  Guy Werry.
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