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While the licensing details can be somewhat complicated, the retail price of ~$7k/core is published on Microsoft's site at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-s
by dhd415 10y ago
While the licensing details can be somewhat complicated, the retail price of ~$7k/core is published on Microsoft's site at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-pricing https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-p.... Oracle's pricing is harder to come by but is closer to $25k/core for the Enterprise edition on x86 CPUs. There are often lots of extras involved in Oracle licensing, too, so the total cost differential between the two is generally higher than the per-core license cost differential.
- toyg 10y agoThe licensing difference is not that much; what is really different is TCO. Any IT guy can reasonably look after SqlServer, whereas Oracle needs specialised personnel which will inevitably be outsourced offshore, increasing complexity and costs. And Oracle support contracts (which are basically mandatory) are really expensive.
- flukus 10y agoHow hard is looking after postgres compared to SqlServer? I'm a .net developer that's been spoiled by SqlServers ease of use. I just started at a place that use sybase which is a nightmare.