RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

If you look on Metalink, under "Product Lifecycle", no it's not. And that's news to me. But it also says that "SQL*Plus" is separately licensable. Which really irks me, because you can't START your DB without it in 9i! So, how is this an OPTION???

And we have NEVER seen an Oracle Rep! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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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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