Hello all,

We have Microstrategy with SQL server now, we are thinking about put
in some Oracle at back end, is that true that Oracle need
Mircostrategy Enterprise Edition vs. SQL server working with
Microstrategy Standred Edition. Here you talk about Microstrategy
Standred Edition is half the price of Enterprise Edition.

Any one has information on it?

Thanks.

Not sure if this is right. Microstrategy Standard Edition can talk to
SQL Server or Oracle, there maybe optimizations in the enterprise
edition that you cannot leverage. In addition Oracle on Windows and
Oracle on Unix are not like DB2 which can be a different codebase.
Either way you can connect using the same ODBC driver, merant(supplied
with mstr) or oracle's own.

I just checked with a license key that I think is non-enterprise and
had no troubles.

"Nigel Pendse" <nigelp.nospam (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote

You're right about the DB2, it was just a simple example and I meant
MVS, I've been through the pain of porting from a Windows dev to MVS -
frustrating, it was easier to port to Oracle in the end.

I'm going to follow this up a little more and ask some firends how
they expect to enforce it and why should they add another complication
to there licensing. The fact is I will soon be able to build a 64-bit
Windows server using 16 high-end intel or AMD chips which will outpace
many unix boxes, it could even be a 32-bit machine in some
circumstances.

"Nigel Pendse" <nigelp.nospam (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote

"Nigel Pendse" <nigelp.nospam (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote


DB2 UDB originated from a merge of two products - DB2 Common Server
and DB2 Parallel Edition. DB2 Common Server was (as its name
suggested) the first common code base edition of DB2.

Currently DB2 UDB (v8) runs with the same code base on Windows, Linux
and UNIX platforms. v7.2 was the last to support OS/2.

So yes, DB2 does have a common code base - on non-mainframe platforms.


Jeremy Rickard