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Joe Joe
Good article. A lot of truth. The fact is that both Oracle and Microsoft
got where they are with aggressive sales and marketing tactics. I have often
said that Bill Gates got to be the richest man on the planet by giving away
more software than anyone else. He (and Larry) understood at an early stage
that the risk of giving away software was small. Suppose a consultant comes
into your company and creates an application, then leaves. He forgot to
mention that he used a trial version of Oracle. Well, eventually the company
will need support and will have to get legally licensed. A company
(certainly not a significant one) can't take the risk of having unlicensed
software. And then they won't be in a position to bargain with Oracle for
the best price. On the other hand, suppose you want to learn how to be a DBA
on your own time. Which database will you choose? The one with the least
restrictive policy. If company A makes you buy a full production license and
company B lets you freely download a trial copy, which will you choose? So
company B may lose a few licensing dollars here and there at the start, but
it may wind up with more trained professionals and more companies using its
product.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:37 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Folks,
Does "Oracle Enterprise Edition - Trialware" have all the features as that of a licensed one ? Is RMAN fully functional on a trial version of 9iR2 ?
What makes the difference between these two ?
If there is no difference, how does ORACLE prevent people from using it for
PRODUCTION ?
Read an interesting article about oracle licensing at
http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1113993
<http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1113993> and just thought of sharing it with
u guys.
Share your comments Gurus.
Cheers,
Joe.
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