Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

701.0. "New (6/90) Ingres Pricing" by POBOX::BOOTH (What am I?...An Oracle?) Tue Jul 31 1990 23:40

    Well, I have a new (6/90) Ingres price list as well.
    
    Be very careful with Ingres price comparisons. Ingres has unbundled,
    and the pricing is quite deceptive.
    
    There is a new entry called "base product." That is the RDBMS with
    Ingres tools. It is discounted about 16.7% from the cost of the
    individual components (RDBMS + Tools [ABF is a separate product]).
    
    Triggers and Rules are packaged in the Knowledge Management Option for
    42.9% of the RDBMS price.
    
    Things like group security and user-defined data types are now rolled
    into the Object Management Option for 71.4% of the RDBMS price.
    
    If you buy both Knowledge and Object management, a discount brings the
    price down to 85.7% of the RDBMS price for both.
    
    The Gateways are available for RMS, Rdb, DB2, IMS, and SQL/DS. They are
    good, but quite pricey ($43,000 each for RMS and Rdb, $92,250 each for
    DB2 and SQL/DS, $123,000 for IMS, on a VAX 6000 Model 410).
    
    The problem here is that between the optional packages, the tools, the
    network protocols, the gateways, and Ingres/Star products, Ingres is
    now just about as high as Oracle for a complete implementation.
    However, they can quote VERY competitive prices on a basic system (but
    the customer may not know it is a basic system).
    
    
    ---- Michael Booth