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Success Stories. They’ve made the move. Will you?

Companies everywhere are rising above business as usual.


Eli Lilly

"We asked ourselves where we want to be five years from now, and the Microsoft solution was the best solution."

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The current Oracle database is preventing scientists, doctors, and vendors from easily sharing pharmaceutical information for important drug studies. They are experiencing long wait times for accessing critical data and, as a result, their collaboration on complex drug development projects is ineffective. To improve this core competency, Eli Lilly is currently migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2008.

US Department of Defense

"The Department of Defense is not a ... profit driven organization. Anything we can do to save the taxpayer a dollar or two, we want to do. By migrating to SQL Server 2008, we were saving taxpayer dollars."

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Driven primarily by security and reliability concerns, the IT department replaced an Oracle database system with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to save significant taxpayer and government dollars, provide a higher level of security, and operate a fully streamlined IT platform. By migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the Department of Defense found a solution to improve the applications effectiveness across global units.

DeLaval

"The Microsoft Application Platform improved the company’s price/performance goals by providing the same level of speed and high availability in a cluster configuration as Linux and Oracle, but at a lower cost.

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The IT department wanted to achieve software performance that was equal to or better than what it had with Oracle while keeping costs reasonable. According to IT executive Frank Gretzinger, this was not possible using the Oracle database system to support the Siebel software …. “If we moved to a quad-core processor configuration, our Oracle licenses would need to double, so we would incur large up-front costs and larger yearly maintenance costs,” he says. “We felt it was simply too expensive."

Dollar Thrifty Auto Group

"In theory, we would have been able to scale with Oracle, but it would have been cost prohibitive."

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When DTAG evaluated its options for solving the issues it had with Rate Engine, the company saw a clear financial benefit for moving to SQL Server 2008 R2. DTAG saved more than $100,000 in UNIX hardware costs and $495,000 in software costs by not upgrading its Oracle solution. These savings equate to the cost of the SQL Server migration project.

Forest Oil Corporation

"We are realizing savings in excess of $100K annually... our new platform is giving us a competitive advantage."

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An internal analysis revealed Oracle was too costly, interfering with the company's goal to reduce costs. Migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 created money-saving opportunities by eliminating the Oracle database administrator (outsourced to a third-party provider) and Oracle's expensive licensing and maintenance fees.