Re: Money is a great thing, but strong ethic is better (I think, but Oracle not)

"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0301080716.efe4bf5_at_posting.google.com...
> So we cannot use for this very simple application Standard Edition,
> but must go to much more expensive EE, even if we do not need any of
> advanced features of EE. In our particular case this simple sentence
> would cost as more than 100.000$ for dual CPU server with clustered
> backup.
> Am I only one who think that this is very unfair?
No.
>Am I the only one with this feeling about Oracle's behaviour to its
> customers in last few years? I do now want to start flames, and I'm
> very positive about Oracle's products and their qualities, but this
> one just got me.

The rumour is that OEM 4 will require a 9iAS install and thus licensing for 9iAS,OEM and a Database Instance. presumably this helps lower total cost of ownership :(.

> Moral implication at the end: We will probably use DB2 for this
> application. I've never thought that I as long time Oracle fan will
> support implementing DB2 in our company. :-(

I'd be suggesting a commodity server and SQLServer so things could be worse.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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