RE: Pricing Wars

From: Steve Orr <sorr_at_arzoo.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:13:08 -0700
Message-Id: <10527.109079@fatcity.com>

> raising prices as a way to gain credibility
Yeah, as a freelance DBA, the more I charge the more respect I get for my consulting opinions.

Low rates = low credibility.
High rates = air of authority.
Knowledge base unchanged.

:-)

Steve Orr

-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:32 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Pricing Wars

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 06:42:55 -0800, you wrote:

>"Microsoft is raising prices in the enterprise market," says
>Terilyn Palanca, a director at Giga Information Group. That's OK,
>since moving the price of its database closer to offerings from
>Oracle and IBM will help ease customers' perception that SQL
>Server is a departmental product,

So Microsoft sees raising prices as a way to gain credibility? Wow. There's probably some logic to it though. I seem to recall reading some marketing studies (done with consumers) that speak to this issue.

Jonathan

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