Re: Pricing question?

"Paul" <paulsnewsgroups_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:sgfp919485ji6domhiviqll30fqh0q2kki_at_4ax.com...
>
>
> Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Dunno... but your friend could download and test as much as he likes
> >for free - don't do production is all that matters.
> >Go to otn.oracle.com/download, and go ahead - read the license
> >carefully, and you'll see what I mean.
>
>
> This is what I told him. You don't have to pay for Oracle unless you
> are in production. Which is fine. Just pointed him at the downloads
> and he's now messing around with it.
>
>
> >Does that answer the other question? :)
>
>
> Which other question? The one about being a VAR? Does Oracle have this
> concept? I know, for example, that Interbase from Borland will give
> you substantial reductions on licence fees if you buy licences in
> bulk. Same with Oracle?
>
> Or was it the question of farming out the programming somewhere else?
>
>
>
> Paul...
>
>
> --
>
> plinehan __at__ yahoo __dot__ __com__
>
> XP Pro, SP 2,
>
> Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.)
> Interbase 6.0.2.0;
>
> When asking database related questions, please give other posters
> some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
> The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't
work!").
> Thanks.
>
> Furthermore, As a courtesy to those who spend
> time analyzing and attempting to help, please
> do not top post.

Oracle does have a run time concept for vars. It is a substantial discount. Contact the Oracle Sales rep.,
Jim Received on Tue May 31 2005 - 22:44:22 CDT