Microsoft SQL
Server Offers 3.7 Times Lower TCO Than Oracle For A Real-World Customer
Solution
Aberdeen Group Study Finds SQL Server the TCO
Leader for ADP
REDMOND, Wash. - March 8,
1998 - - Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft® SQL
Server™ offers a solution whose total cost of ownership (TCO) is 3.7 times
lower than that of Oracle, according to independent research done by the
Boston-based Aberdeen Group Inc. Aberdeen conducted an analysis of the
computer services giant Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Inc.'s
decision-making criteria regarding the use of SQL Server vs. Oracle for an
enterprisewide customer-service solution.
In addition to its superior TCO savings, SQL Server
also meets ADP's mission-critical needs for performance, scalability and
reliability, according to Aberdeen. ADP's employer services division uses
Clarify running on SQL Server as the basis for its 8,000-user, 40-site
ACCESS client service and management solution.
"Because of the low TCO of SQL Server, we can focus
our resources on improved client service and corporate profitability. This
is a tremendous win-win situation for us and our clients," said Howard
Koenig, corporate vice president of operations and client service at ADP.
"We chose SQL Server because it's the only database to offer the best of
both worlds - the enterprise-class database platform we need as well as the
best TCO."
"Our research showed that SQL Server 6.5 costs ADP
27 percent of the cost of Oracle's offering when we factored in product
licensing, ongoing support and administration. Even upgrading to SQL Server
7.0 would keep total costs at just 36 percent of the cost of Oracle," said
Chris Martins, senior analyst at Aberdeen Group Inc. A copy of the Aberdeen
study can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/evaluation/compare/Aberdeen.asp
SQL Server Meets Licensing, Continuing Support Cost
and Scalability Needs
ADP selected SQL Server for its ACCESS project
after determining that the project could run on the Windows NT®
Server operating system and Dell hardware for less than one-third the cost
of a UNIX/RISC system. ADP also determined that, based on product licensing
costs, an Oracle solution would cost 1.6 times more than a SQL Server-based
solution.
When factoring in three-year support costs, the
Oracle solution was 3.7 times more expensive than SQL Server, making SQL
Server even more cost-effective.
Beyond TCO, SQL Server also met the scalability
requirements for ADP's massive customer-service and management solution. The
low cost of the Windows NT-based software and Dell hardware made it
cost-effective to configure each of the company's regional systems with
enough horsepower to meet any need for transaction throughput, according to
the Aberdeen research.
SQL Sets New Price/Performance Record on Industry
Benchmark
ADP's experience is mirrored by that of a growing
range of companies finding that the superior TCO, enterprise-class
scalability, reliability and functionality of SQL Server make it the leading
database on the Windows NT platform. Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that
SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise
Edition have set a new price/performance world record on the
industry-standard TPC-C benchmark. The results were achieved on a Compaq
ProLiant 7000 server with four 450MHz Pentium II Xeon processors. The
benchmark result of 22,478 transactions per minute (tpmC) at $18.84/tpmC is
the first time any enterprise system has brought price/performance below
$20/tpmC and represents the lowest system cost among all comparable
four-processor systems. This configuration is available now. Currently, the
top 16 TPC-C price/performance benchmark results ever published are on the
SQL Server Enterprise Edition platform.
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