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RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

From: Kimberly Smith <ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:18:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004288F9.20020313181825@fatcity.com>


RE: Oracle Hungry for MoneySo there, they saved money:-)
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  From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Jon Baker   Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:41 PM   To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L   Subject: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

  Actually, if you are found using items during audit, I believe you pay for the licensing and then pay another fee of 200% costs for illegal usage.

  In other words, cost something like 3 times normal if found during audit.

  jon
  jcb_at_netsec.net

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  From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net]   Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:29 PM   To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L   Subject: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

  Doesn't sound like a trick to me... Although I am sure they   are out for money, after all that is what the sales folks do, SELL.

  If they had chosen to audit you the result would have been the same.   You implemented you pay for it. Sounds fair to me within the grounds   of Oracle pay through the teeth licensing.

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  Canaan
  Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:03 AM   To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

  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)
  (585) 475-7886
  "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put   into it" - Tom Lehrer

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