Re: Oracle Pricing is kind of lame

Tip :
You can choose between Processor-Power or Named-User :

Take a look at
http://store.oracle.com/cec/cstage?eccookie=&ecaction=ecpassthru2&template=w alkin1.en.htm

But remember : Processor is nothing / Disk I/O is all ....

Invest in your Disk-Sub-System !!

Greetinx Rudi
sphinx99 <address_at_dontspamme.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: aa0hbss9p6v23tr024kq57fmkd9ngdpbla_at_4ax.com...
> 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