Over on comp.databases.informix, Captain Pedantic wrote:
The point being that the sexy Continuous Availability features are only as purchasable optional extras in a version, Enterprise, where - no two ways about this - Informix is *already* more expensive than Oracle and DB2 even before you buy the optional extras!
The pricing of the features is a huge disappointment.
Now that is something that IBM could easily do something about, even just to put IDS on the same footing price-wise as DB2 ...
So, I cracked open my pricebook once more ... Assuming a single-CPU Intel box again:
IDS Enterprise Edition: $51,500
Oracle EE: $47,500
Twiddly bits for a 4-way cluster:
CAF: $20,000
RAC: $23,000
Licensing total:
IDS: $286,000
Oracle: $282,000
Assumption for the above: Oracle to be fully licensed (EE+RAC) on each RAC node. I'm sure an ACE Director will be along shortly to tell me if I'm wrong.
I'm willing to be that you'll save that $4,000 just in installation and configuration time on IDS vs Oracle. Chuck in Dataguard and there's no real difference. Chuck in Partitioning and IDS is cheaper. I don't think a <1.5% list price difference is a particularly "compelling" argument, especially when you factor in negative scalability. ;o)
Just for shits and giggles, though:
SQL Server EE: $25,000
SQL Server cluster: $0
SQL Server HDR: $0
SQL Server Total: $100,000
Further assuming that a 4-way cluster is even possible in SQL Server, of course. I have no idea.
Note that I am not saying I agree with the pricing, I'm just saying that at that level, list price differences aren't really the issue. I'd love IDS to be able to take the fight to SQL Server on price and my personal take on this is that EE should include everything.
But, er, hey! What do I know? It's not like I'm sitting here naked and blogging!
Oh wait, I am!
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