Re: License pricing

From: Lothar Flatz <l.flatz_at_bluewin.ch>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:50:20 +0100
Message-ID: <56DE762C.6030808_at_bluewin.ch>



Try to sell something that is not Hana to a SAP shop. Good luck! Your chances are better if you want to make a democrat out of Mrs. Palin.

On 08.03.2016 01:57, Ryan January wrote:
> The next logical step is how many companies running SAP (or any other
> MS SQL based application) will jump to MS SQL now that it's running on
> Linux? That seems like a small market to me.
> I'd argue that it still changes nothing as MS SQL server is
> /already/ an option for that software.
>
>> On Mar 7, 2016, at 6:53 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com
>> <mailto:gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/07/2016 07:21 PM, Iggy Fernandez wrote:
>>> For Linux, customers already have a wide choice of lower-cost,
>>> full-featuresd players: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix, Sybase, and
>>> Ingres in addition to Oracle. How does adding another lower-cost
>>> player change Oracle's sales prospects?
>> It changes things because SQL Server has a bunch of applications
>> running against it, SAP being one of them. And I wouldn't call
>> MySQL or PostgreSQL "full featured".
>>
>> --
>> Mladen Gogala
>> Oracle DBA
>> Tel: (347) 321-1217
>

-- 





--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
Received on Tue Mar 08 2016 - 07:50:20 CET

Original text of this message