Re: {Spam?} RE: The funny thing about numbers is that they're just

Ian Michael Gumby wrote:
On Aug 29, 2:36 pm, Obnoxio The Clown <obno...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ian Michael Gumby wrote:

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:48:32 +0100
From: obno...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: informix-l...@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The funny thing about numbers is that they're just
numbers...
Ian Michael Gumby wrote:
the support license costs are much less than those of IBM or Oracle.)
Are you absolutely sure of that?
OTC, yeah I'm sure. Unless you're also including certain very large
customers who qualify for J level discount and then negotiate a 90%
discount on top of that.
But that's not the market that we're talking about. We're talking
about the SMB customer who at best could get a 20-25% discount from list.
You can check the prices and maintenance renewal.
Assuming a single-CPU Intel box (which isn't entirely unreasonable):
Picking a PostgreSQL support vendor at random, I got a price of $2995
per annum for support. (Plus the *** is in the US, so no bloody use
to me.)
MySQL is also $2995 for support.
IDS Express Edition is $1035 for support. (Plus I get to speak to the
wonderful, patient and mild-mannered Big Potatoe!)

So, for a five year period:

PostgreSQL: $14975
MySQL: $14975
IDS: $9315

And that's list. And pretty SMB.

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Try IDS Enterprise Edition then get back to me.
Sure MySQL doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but some of the
supported versions of Postgress...

And thats the point.

Well, yeah, but the guy I looked at for PostgreSQL support charged extra for any funny uses. And anyway, does a SMB need all the EE features?

Plus, the sites I've picked up that migrated of PostgreSQL onto IDS have shown that PostgreSQL has some "interesting design considerations". By the time you factor in all the fucking around you need to do anything substantial, I'd say the argument is still in IDS's favour.

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