Yea, according to you that happened, but its more of a rarity than the rule.
I've been dealing with oracle corp for 10 years and for a long time,
there was negotiations but not like that.
joe
&alef;&dalet;&resh; &yod;&het;&yod;&alef;&lamed; wrote:
> To use your own words: I beg to differ.
>
> We have a site license for in-house use of Oracle.
> The subject of license for internet site came up.
> We checked MSSQL server prices and got a competitive offer
> from oracle. We went the oracle way.
> When you add the price of the license + training costs + having to
> manage to different DBMS etc. Oracle can be the less expensive choice.
>
> BTW Antonio wrote that they are already an Oracle shop.
>
> Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
> adary_at_mehish.co.il
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Joe Testa [SMTP:teci_at_the-testas.net]
>>Sent: Sun, January 27, 2002 5:45 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>Subject: Re: Slight OT : Size of MS SQLServer Databases
>>
>>I bet to differ, unless the company has millions sunk into oracle
>>software, oracle corp doesn't seem to care about the small stuff.
>>
>>joe
>>
>>&alef;&dalet;&resh; &yod;&het;&yod;&alef;&lamed; wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I will ask Oracle for competitive bid of the license.
>>>I think that they will go a long way to prevent MSSQL getting a foothold
>>>
>>in
>>
>>>your company.
>>>
>>>Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
>>>adary_at_mehish.co.il
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: antonio.belloni_at_hstern.com.br
>>>>
>>[SMTP:antonio.belloni_at_hstern.com.br]
>>
>>>>Sent: Fri, January 25, 2002 1:06 PM
>>>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>>>>Subject: Slight OT : Size of MS SQLServer Databases
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>We are evaluating databases to our web site and the candidates are
>>>>
>>Oracle
>>
>>>>and MS. We already have Oracle running on our production environments ,
>>>>but
>>>>, mainly a cost-based decision , management don´t want to buy Oracle to
>>>>the
>>>>web site. So , we want to know how big are the MS databases out there.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>Antonio Belloni
>>>>
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