RE: oracle EE pricing

From: <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:48:39 -0500
Message-ID: <0684DA55864E404F8AD2E2EBDFD557DA03E7D57B_at_JAXMSG01.crowley.com>


You mean this site? https://mix.oracle.com/ideas/117539-please-consider-long-term-customer-relationships-when-making-license-claims

I'm getting in.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
904 727-2546

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Goulet, Richard Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:41 AM
To: gints.plivna_at_gmail.com; barb.baker_at_gmail.com Cc: vit.spinka_at_vitspinka.cz; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: oracle EE pricing

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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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Gints Plivna Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:04 AM
To: barb.baker_at_gmail.com
Cc: vit.spinka_at_vitspinka.cz; oracle-l_at_freelists.org 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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