Oracle-L: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:34:00 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00427E4C.20020313123400@fatcity.com>

No it is not.

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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Scott,

We also have a higher ed site liscense, isn't partitioning included in the "Enterprise Edition"???

...JIM... >>> srcdco_at_ritvax.rit.edu 3/13/02 1:02:33 PM >>> Watch out! I just got off the phone with our Oracle "sales rep". He was asking me if I needed information on Partitioning or OLAP for our data warehouse project. I told him that we are on 8.1.7, so the OLAP option isn't available. To keep him from going into a long speil on Partitioning, I told him that I have already implemented that, which is
true.
He jumped on that and told me that we aren't licensed for it. He followed up with sending me a quote for $23,800 to cover the fact that we are using the option, which we didn't pay for. I was always told that we have a "site" license (higher ed), and he said that our license
was purchased prior to Partioning being available, so that doesn't count.

I'm telling everyone about this as a heads-up. It appears that Oracle is digging for money, and I feel that the approach that was used was done to trick me into admitting that I had implemented the feature.

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Scott Canaan (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
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