Re: Good News - More Choice - OEM Perfomance Pack pricing stinks

Somebody is blowing this way out of proportion. This is standard wording in the last 16 quaterlies or so made to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Although I cant help commenting that OEM Performance Pack pricing is about the most brain dead thing Oracle has ever done (licensed by concurrent user !!!). Obviously, they do not intend to make money of this. Why not license per "slab" of users or DB_SIZe or take a fixed price say $5000 - $10000. Greedy, greedy !!!

Every site I know misrepresents OEM performance Pack licensing by tagging it to a smaller CSI. I have emailed Oracle on this, no response at all.

Anybody out there paying $300 on top of Oracle Enterprise pricing for OEM Performance Pack.

Later,

Joel R. Kallman wrote:
>
> On 10 Oct 1998 04:01:08 GMT, paulkcng_at_news.netvigator.com (Ng K C
> Paul) wrote:
>
> >http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2613.html
> >
> >ORACLE CAVES IN TO PRICE CUTS
> >
> > No. 1 database software company Oracle warns
> > investors it may have to cut prices of its database
> > software in response to intense competition. IBM,
> > Informix and Sybase have been offering deep discounts
> > to gain market share. And Microsoft is adding intense
> > pressure from the low end. Meanwhile, sales of other
> > Oracle software have been erratic during the past year.
>
> Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL - news) said on Tuesday that a Reuter report
> about potential price cuts was misleading and that there was no change
> in the market for database software.
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/981006/bcm.html
> Thanks!
>
> Joel
>
> Joel R. Kallman
> Oracle Government, Education, & Health
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  Received on Sun Oct 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT