>>Serves them right! Oracle is way over priced and the people associated with it are snobs.
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>>Charlie
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>Larry Ellison may be an AH, but Oracle has brought its pricing down to be competitive with the comparable MS products. MSDE is free, so is Personal Oracle. The server versions are competively priced as well when I last looked [about a year ago]. Before SQL Server became serious competition, Oracle pricing was at least an order of magnitude higher than those by MS.


Yup, I knew they had done that. Any feel for hidden costs? Additional training, more complicated setup both on the server and workstations, increased development time/complexity vs. SQL Server, DBA, etc.