RE: Oracle Licensing

I'm following this thread and a worrying thought has crossed my mind:-

If Oracle carries on with this pricing model, soon we will all be looking for a new job......scary :-)

Martin Kendall

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Sent: 02 March 2001 22:00
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Last time I danced with our sales rep, power units were per server, not per user... so the power unit price would be 400*100 = 40,000 for an unlimited (Ha!
at 200mhz?) number of users. If you ask nicely, yours may agree to convert any
concurrent or named user licenses you have into power unit credits.

Dennis Taylor wrote:

> At 06:25 AM 3/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >the mire. At any rate, there are suppose to be two basic licensing
> schemes, and
> >GOD only knows how many "allowed" permutations:
> >
> > 1) Power Units which equates to the number of processors times the
> speed of
> >the processors in Megahertz. Oh, BTW: it matters if their Intel or Risc
> >processors too. Risc processors are more expensive. In general this is
the
> >MOST expensive way to go.
> >
>
> I went to the oracle site and did some calcs for adding users to Oracle
> Enterprise. Kept sayin g to myself, "Naw, they must mean *hundreds* of
> megahertz....". Anyway, for a very behind-the-curve system (2x200mhz
> ppro's), it works out to $4000 per additional user.
>
> Or I can look at Interbase/Firebird, which is free.
>
> Today I will be assigning one of my staff the task of downloading,
> installing, and evaluating Firebird.
>
> The only way I can imagine that Oracle thinking can be going is: "Hey,
> revenues are dropping because of competition from free and less expensive
> dbms's". "No problem. Raise prices to make up the shortfall". Then I say
to
> myself, "Naw, no-one can be that stupid". Then I check the per-user prices
> again....
>
> Dennis Taylor
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