Re: Oracle's Licensing Question

Much what I thought the position will be. People will not like the pricing/licencing so much they will prefer alternatives.

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Dan <greenlex_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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

> >

> >

>