Re: Just Curious
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:39:29 -0700
Message-Id: <4D5252C20200009E000571B6_at_groupwise.safmt.org>
We recently were visited by an Oracle representative representing a newly created SMB (Small/Medium sized Business) sales group. They are trying to convince us that they (Oracle) want to work with the SMBs to bring in more of the Oracle stack. There was some implications of pricing flexibility, but of course nothing was concrete.
I haven't really figured out what they meant by it, but it was a quick two day trip through fly over country visiting us and another customer in Bozeman, MT (RightNow Technologies perhaps).
I was wondering if anyone else has had similar contacts from this group.
Rick Weiss
Oracle Database Administrator
Student Assistance Foundation
P.O.Box 203101
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Helena, MT 59620-3101
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(406) 495-7356>>> Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> 2/9/2011 8:30 AM >>>
Thats hard to say, but they are definitely pricing themselves rather high if they intend to compete in the small to mid-size market.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
Curious question. I have attended two Oracle events recently promoting Exadata. These are high performance, expensive systems.
At the same time we have purchased applications requiring small to mid-sized databases. All are written for SQL Server only.
We only have one data warehouse. We have hundreds of other applications. Is Oracle giving up on the small to mid-size database space? They sure aren't talking about it in their marketing events and I am not seeing apps come in the door written to be either database agnostic or written for Oracle.
Pete Barnett
Database Technologies Lead
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