Re: Interesting info about Oracle

   I am not a sales-person for PGSql. I have been using Oracle for about 10 years - since Oracle7. Today it is too costly and dangerous to deal with Oracle. I am just tired of all the lemmings going out and buying Oracle and destroying competition and creating a situation that leads to another Microsoft-like monopoly. Prices go sky-high, quality goes down (call support and you will know what I mean) and the company that is left, rides our collective a*ses and dictates what we can do.

Paying for software licenses will go the way of button-down shoes. Pay for integration, support and knowledge but don't blow money on seat-licensing.

Burton Peltier wrote:
> Sounds like you forgot to ask for your change in that deal ... who in their
> right mind pays $40,000 per cpu ? Not us and nobody I have ever talked to.
>
> One day Oracle (for databases) and Microsoft (uhhh.. too damn much) will
> fall from their current market dominance and hopefully (but not necessarily)
> be replaced by better products.
>
> But, free (initial cost only) software will not necessarily be the winner...
> just because the initial cost is free. They will need to make a better
> product or have better "sales" people .
>
> So far your sales pitch isn't going too far for me either.
>
Received on Sun Jun 22 2003 - 23:56:49 CDT