Re: oracle prices, are they for real?

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:04:02 -0500
Message-ID: <%eAK2.785$tQ5.983@news7.ispnews.com>

Oracle is outstanding in its policies of making software available for developers to learn and to hone their skills. Once you decide you need it to run a business $1300 is nothing. NO other software company comes close to what Oracle does to help us. Quit whining.

Van

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 - 18:04:02 CST