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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (30303)	10/1/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: ericneu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You can probably get by cheaper with an WinNT machine with IIS, but this depends alot on how you plan on using the database. IIS is not a database. IIS is the web server integrated with Windows NT. Microsoft's RDBMS offering is SQL Server. But (even with IIS), it will be the per-client licenses that will come back to bite you. Windows NT & SQL Server currently hold spots one through ten on the TPC-C price/performance scale (see tpc.org. While neither SQL Server or Oracle's db are inexpensive, SQL Server costs less and performs faster on identical hardware. - Eric