Re: Oracle's Licensing Question

Oracle's new pricing "scheme" and it is just that is not popular among its customers but I'm sure Oracle's stockholders love it. If they don't watch out, they will lose a lot of customers and ultimately lose revenue. I hate MS SQL Server but they only charge $3,000 per processor.

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:06:50 -0600, "JK" <jkp_at_REMOVEIT.texoma.net> wrote:

>I'd really appreciate it if someone can clarify some of Oracle's licensing
>to me.
>
>Does named user license mean that I have to specify the actual name of the
>person accessing the database to Oracle? While purchasing? People working
>at our company change very frequently and I'm not sure I want to get into
>this type of agreement if that's the case.
>
>Also, most of the connections to the database at my company are from
>software that are automated (getting data from one place, inserting it into
>database, moving it, querying to create reports etc.). How do I figure out
>licenses for these? And please don't say "power unit". We'll have to
>migrate to a different database from Oracle If that's the only way! Can't
>afford it. I can buy a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 6 400 MHz CPUs for a little
>over $100K but I'll have to pay Oracle $360K for the database! Not counting
>any options!
>
>Thanks much
>JK
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 00:00:00 CST