RE: oracle EE pricing
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:41:16 -0500
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Seems you hit a sore nerve as the page appears to have been taken down. I just got an Error 500.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International
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Subject: Re: oracle EE pricing
As a side note - it seems that Oracle has started (at least in some places) to maximize the income with all possible means. In Oracle Mix there is even a topic urging to think about that https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/117539-please-consider-long-term-customer-relationships-when-making-license-claims
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu
2010/1/18 Barbara Baker <barb.baker_at_gmail.com>:
> OK to spec SE for new projects, but what about those of us with declining
> revenues? We would love to downgrade our licenses from EE to SE, and keep
> oracle, but oracle will have none of it. We are asked to shelve all of our
> EE licenses and buy new SE licenses. All of that money for our EE licenses
> in the trash can.
>
> At that juncture, Postgre/MySQL or even SQL Server start looking mighty
> attractive.
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