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Have you ever tried to buy a server with only a single core for licensing reasons? It's impossible with modern hardware, the best we were able to do was a doub
by DrStalker 11y ago
Have you ever tried to buy a server with only a single core for licensing reasons? It's impossible with modern hardware, the best we were able to do was a double core/single CPU system to run some oracle bits to talk to other oracle stuff. This server processed around half a dozen tiny xml files a day and buying a dedicated physical server saved a few hundred thousand over any other option we could figure out.
- rodgerd 11y agoThe best option is usually another DBMS stack if you can support it. DB2 does support much saner licensing, for example.
- hydrogen18 11y agoYour advice is spot-on, but you have to remember that many times the software being ran was written by someone who has long since moved on. Even if the source code is readily available, no one may be around to handle to porting it to another RDBMS. Admittedly, this is where much maligned dependency injection frameworks can be useful. I have "upgraded" a large number of old Java software packages by simply placing a newer version of the library's jar on the classpath.
- marcosdumay 11y agoWell, if we are comparing licenses, Postgres has an unbeatable licensing, and a much better Oracle compatibility tools.
- walshemj 11y agoYou did not consider using a simple Open source system to do this or are you unlucky and work for a corporate where its Oracle everywhere?