Re: Who can afford Oracle!

Mark is correct. It appears that whoever is negotiating within your company thinks they are supposed to go for the highest number, not the lowest.

And why buy a license for 500 until you have 500 connections? Buy for 100 and then increase incrementally as required to keep legal.

Tell you what ... Mark (sorry if I am being a bit presumptuous) and I will negotiate the license for your company if we can keep 50% of what we save you.

Daniel A. Morgan

Mark Townsend wrote:

> in article mT5D6.1441$vI2.110838_at_newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net, Murphy at
> murphy_at_y.z wrote on 4/17/01 6:13 PM:
>
> > Great googlie mooglie! $600,000 per year for 500
> > intranet web users!!? We can't use Oracle in our
> > project because of the licensing and I'm wondering
> > who could afford to use it. Perhaps it is just a case
> > of my company not being able to negotiate worth a
> > damn. But they swear it on the up and up. So how
> > can anyone afford to use Oracle with 500+ users?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Huh ? I just ran your numbers on oraclestore.oracle.com. Unless I got this
> really wrong, a perpetual Enterprise Edition licence for 500 named users
> works out to about 250K including the first year of support (22% annually
> after that). Standard Edition is a lot cheaper at about $80K for a perpetual
> licence. And the 2 and 5 year options are even cheaper.
>
> Try it yourself - and then tell your company you have negotiated with Oracle
> and saved them between $350-520 K !!
Received on Wed Apr 18 2001 - 00:40:53 CDT