Re: php/oracle web site

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michel Chamberland wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if anybody built and host a oracle/php/linux web > site out there. I was surprised to learn that to move my web site to > production i'd have to pay $110000 for a Oracle 8i EE license. I am > using only one user account in oracle on one single server! That's approximately the price I heard. This is why many are using other databases. DB2 is substantially less, but only the lightest weight databases (my professional opinion) will be under $5k for a web license these days. > If anyone has a similar experience please let me know! I though the > named user single license perpetual would be good enought for my > needs. Gee im thinking of moving to tab delimited format ;) No, not at all. Databases are big business. -- _Deirdre * http://www.sfknit.org * http://www.deirdre.net "We can always count on the British. Except for the Revolutionary War they've been perfect." -- Mel Brooks, on the first Concorde flight since the Paris crash.