Re: tough choices

Rahul Kitchlu wrote:

> Daniel, Oracle's practice of dubious 'internal' discounts in pricing are a
> legend in iteself. As for list price comparisons for
> the sake of objectivity, Oracle is consistently the most expensive solution
> you can pick up.

I don't sell the product or make any money from its sales so I don't care. But dubious is your word. And surely you aren't so naive that you don't think the sales person that met me from IBM didn't do the same thing. The only a fool or a moron pays list price for a commercial RDBMS or a used car.

And I suspect your CFO would say the same thing about anyone that price shops based on list price. You price commercial RDBMS products with something called an RFP.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)