Re: DBMS Product Pricing Strategies
Date: 17 Mar 93 11:37:02 GMT
Message-ID: <4364_at_ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM>
In article <1993Mar16.050321.3950_at_cltr.uq.OZ.AU> markw_at_cltr.uq.oz.au (Mark White) writes:
>I'm doing a quick study into some of the pricing/licencing strategies
>empployed by each of the major RDBMS product vendors, and would be
>interested in how Oracle, Informix, Sybase etc determine prices on
>various platforms and networks.
>
>I'd like to hear from anyone (especially vendors themselves, but anyone
>with any knowledge!) who can detail the pricing scales for the product
>you are ussing to develop DB applications. For example, is it based
>on the number of users? The platform? The number of servers? The server
>platform? How about runtimes VS development?
>
>I'm happy to post a summary of responses, so please reply by email in
>the first instance.
>
I have found that licensing agreements tend to change dramatically to favor the vendor. One recent tuffle I have been on the periphery of is the 'USER LICENSE'. At first, we were under the impression that this user license was for concurrent users, as that is how it was explained to us. Now, however, I hear that we are to be billed ( or the vendor wants to bill us ) on NAMED users. So whats a named user? Does that mean if I have an id for every person on the system ( or for everyone who can connect to the DB ) that I pay for each of them? What if I give everyone the same ID ( ok, forget the security and audit trail problems ). I don't think I have ever seen a truly comprehensive and understandable pricing strategy.
>Thanks in advance,
>
>--
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Tom Donnelly | WIN: Tom.Donnelly_at_Sophia NCR Europe Group ISS | UUCP: ..ncrcom!ncrsoph!tdonnell Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne | France | TEL: 33-92 94 45 40Received on Wed Mar 17 1993 - 12:37:02 CET