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Re: Database Licensing for Public Web Access
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To: "Steve A. Olson" <solson@cst.com>
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Subject: Re: Database Licensing for Public Web Access
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From: Steve Mintz <tsaltd@panix.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:51:48 -0500
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Cc: www-rdb@w3.org
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From tsaltd@panix.com Thu Mar 21 16: 52:38 1996
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Message-Id: <3151CF74.342@panix.com>
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Organization: Technology/Systems Advisors Ltd.
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References: <9603211019.aa24279@sao486.cst.com>
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Steve A. Olson wrote:
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> Hello fellow lurkers,
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> I'd be interested in any comments anyone has regarding
> database licensing as it relates to the Web and a
> Public Internet Site.
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Solaris RDB Licenses have always commanded a premium, and I do not
expect that to change, using the supply and demand/pricing equation, it
does not seem that the big boys' gross revenues would move in the right
direction if they cut their prices, tho servers are becoming more of a
commodity and the real $$'s are in middleware (the Sybase strategy).
Pricing for NT Server, on the other hand seems more reasonable -- I
recently spoke with a sales person with NeXt and asked him why
WebObjects (the high end package that enables RDB access) for NT is the
same price (20K+) for NT as Solaris -- he thought that was a good
question.
Perhaps the solution is a "service bureau" model, where the investment
in software is shared among multiple users -- I'm currently looking for
sites that will provide me with access to the development tools so that
I can develop my own applications on their machine and then let them
host the MY apps on their Server -- I believe those economics should be
attractive for the near term.
Does this seem reasonable ?
Steve Mintz
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