Posted by DA Morgan on 10/02/85 11:44

Hugo Kornelis wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:57:05 -0700, DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>>
>>> Moving to a new platform is costly. You lose lots of productivity
>>> attending courses or studying books.
>> The average time it takes competent (the operative word here being
>> competent) Windows admins to learn Linux or most flavours of UNIX
>> sufficient to work with a database product whether Oracle or Sybase
>> or whatever) is less than a week.
> (snip)
>
> Hi DA,
>
> I refered to the cost of moving to another database platform, ie someone
> familiar with SQL Server moving to Oracle, or someone familiar with
> Oracle moving to SQL Server.

Sorry I misunderstood. Changing platforms can be expensive. But it
seemed to me, from the OP's question, that they were not considering
a change but rather an initial platform.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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