Re: More Red Hat information - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: More Red Hat information
Date
Msg-id 200106261624.f5QGOCL16237@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: More Red Hat information  (martin.chantler@convergys.com)
List pgsql-general
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>
> Hmm, M$ SQL may be a few hundered $ for a couple of user licenses
> but last time I looked it was at least ?7000 (about $10,000?) for a 100
> user
> license. Thats not the enterprise edition either.
>
> In my experience DB pricing structures seem to be a mystery whichever
> platform you look at :)

20k per CPU.  See:

    http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61438,00.html

for the story and:

    http://www.computerworld.com/computerworld/records/images/pdf/2001_25_p7.pdf

for a comparison chart.

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