Re: oracle prices, are they for real?

If you want a personal copy of Oracle you can obtain one just by downloading it.

If you want a copy of Oracle for commercial usage you will have to pay Oracle
whatever they decide the going rate is or use a different RDMBS. Oracle is THE heavy duty RDBMS. Oracle is focused on the high end commercial market where the customers are willing to pay for 7X24 reliability and tech support -- both
of which cost a corporation the size of Oracle far more than corporate planes, the
marketeers who have figured out how to capture over half of the RDBMS market,
and the businessmen who have overseen the entire operation.

regards

Jerry Gitomer

christine_at_techresource.org wrote in message <7dcjla$lr8$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
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> 1300 dollars for oracle on linux. Does anyone
>else think that this price is recockulous. Do people
>actually pay these prices. I think i'll just tough
>it out without either postgres or mySQL.
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> I remember reading 200$ for oracle on linux
>somewhere a year or so ago, this was from a news post,
>though. Were prices ever resonable or have they
>gone crazy just recently. I would never pay this much
>for software. Prices like these aren't paying for
>programers and support, these kind of prices are paying
>for marketers, corporate planes, and lamer businesmen
>who sit around tyring to figure out ways to screw people
>while making the programers lives misearable. I am sure
>the programers would be happier charging less, focusing on
>their code more, and loosing the corporate overhead and
>bullshit.
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Received on Thu Mar 25 1999 - 06:27:05 CST