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RE: RE: OT: Oracle pricing

From: Kimberly Smith <kimberly.smith_at_gmd.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:06:53 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0035697E.20010726141617@fatcity.com>

We have it pretty sweet here. They kind of screwed us over a couple of years
ago (before I got here) and EDS and Fujitsu kind of took them to the wall and
we now have a 3 year site license. I can put it on any Sun, HP, or NT machine
I want. Of course, the users are making sure that I get one on every server we have. I have never created so many databases in a job before. Thankfully
the high tech manufacturing industry is hurting and they are not spending more
money so they are running out of servers. I will have to stop soon;-)

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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:22 PM
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Tom,

    Wish it was a joke, but this is the second year that they've brought it up.
Last time we silenced them by buying a new server license. Personally I believe
they're using that tactic on customers who go several years (two or more) without adding to their licenses.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Mercadante; Thomas F" <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date:       7/26/2001 11:41 AM

Dick,

"they suggested that they might be coming around to perform an audit!"

Are you serious? They actually said they wanted to do this? Sounds like they've been watching the Soprano's!

If this isn't extortion, I don't know what is! I hope you kicked their rooty-tooty asses out of your office and told them not to come back! Next thing you know, you'll get a wrapped package delivered containing burnt-out disk-drives.
"Old Oracle Message - your support person had a head crash"

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:02 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Lisa,

    I've not experienced that particular behavior from the Oracle sales droids.
But, we did have ours in yesterday (new droids wanting to put faces to names)
and since Oracle's revenues are down they suggested that they might be coming
around to perform an audit! Now that I think is a heavy handed way of pumping
up the revenue stream. Guess I'd better learn DB2!!

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Koivu; Lisa" <lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com>
Date:       7/26/2001 7:47 AM

Has anyone experienced Oracle sales people gouging each other? Seems like they are getting pretty cut throat. I got one quote for $400,000, and a second quote for less than 25% of that, from two different people. WOW. They are beginning to sound like the company I work for - different story from different people.

> Lisa Koivu
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Has anyone experienced Oracle sales people
gouging each other?&nbsp; Seems like they are getting pretty cut throat.&nbsp; I
got one quote for $400,000, and a second quote for less than 25% of that, from
two different people.&nbsp; WOW.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They are beginning to sound
like the company I work for - different story from different people.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Lisa Koivu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Oracle Database Administrator</FONT>
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