Re: Oracle Pricing is kind of lame

We recently purchased a new Sun server for our data warehouse, because the old one was seriously bottlenecking on compute power; under the new minimum named/proc scheme, I have to purchase 100 named user licenses that I don't need, just to move to the new box. Argh!

I guess Larry needs our money to pay for his antique chinese armor or whatever.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:51:22 GMT, "Kevin A Lewis" <Kevin_A_Lewis_at_Hotmail.com> wrote:

>I understand and agree with all the comments about the pricing of Oracle -
>they know how to make databases and money, but not how to win friends.
>
>However, be careful you aim your criticism in the right direction. As I
>understand it the change in pricing policy has two other aims. Firstly to
>enable a pricing structure to handle LARGE numbers of connections to be
>accounted for in Internet style implementations. Then secondly to enable the
>worldwide selling of the product at common pricing across the WWW. (though
>the Oracle Store site)
>
>The second of these would aim at making the sales force largely redundant. I
>suggest we might pity the poor sales rep his short career. The pricing style
>appear to have come from the very top.
>
>Still makes the pricing options difficult to swallow if you are still
>working a client/server style environment though.
>
>Regards
Received on Sun Feb 27 2000 - 00:00:00 CST