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It may also hurt PeopleSoft and I would not be surprised that SAP takes =
a hit too. To the betterment of us all.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:27 PM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: RE: Grid skepticism
I think you receive those deep discounts based on your leverage with =
Oracle.
If you are a large prospective customer that may buy a lot of licenses, =
they
get much more interested in discounting.
Does anybody remember time-sharing? If you sell to the U.S. =
government
there is a law that you must give them the best deal you've ever given =
any
customer. For services at least. There were several components to =
pricing
time-sharing -- CPU cycles, disk storage, memory, etc. Some government
auditors went through our books looking for the best deal we'd ever =
given
any customer for any of the components. If some salesman had given a
customer free disk storage to close a deal, the auditors insisted that =
was
the price Uncle Sam would pay. Not pretty. These revelations may cost =
Oracle
in unexpected ways.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com=20
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Freeman, Donald
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:24 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Grid skepticism
>Anyway, I just read an article yesterday, sorry lost
>the link, saying people are getting 70-80% discounts
>on Oracle, et al, licenses already.
If I'm not mistaken that reference comes from some Oracle internal =3D
documents disclosed in the Peoplesoft issue. Sales reps were requesting =
=3D
permission to discount that deep to go after Peoplesoft accounts.=3D20
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