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Noons wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
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>>You *can't* buy Oracle without the RAC option. Well you can, if you buy >>Standard Edition One, but Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition both >>include RAC. I don't know how much market share SEO[1] has, but you >>could say that almost all Oracle licenses include RAC.
Microsoft used to do this with Microsoft Office, I believe. They used to package SQL Server with Microsoft Office (maybe they still do) and then whenever an Office license was sold, it automatically resulted in a SQL Server sales whether it was being used or not.
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>>1: Probably negligible in the type of company Gartner is addressing.