Re: What is Oracle thinking

There is one word to describe Oracle: Greed. And their sales reps are trained to live and breathe it. Your best bet is to host it yourself using Oracle Standard edition for a 2 year term at $5.25 per Mhz. Don't even bother calling a sales rep because once you tell them you can't afford the enterprise edition at $100 per Mhz, they lose interest in you.

I agree that Oracle is really screwing the small businesses by charging for the Mhz with this new "scheme." I have no doubt Oracle would CRUSH Microsoft if they lowered their price. They have priced numerous small businesses out of a sale. They should charge by either concurrent usage or average CPU usuage.

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 03:45:31 GMT, "Cyllan" <seitz_at_pobox.com> wrote:

>Dear Oracle Corp,
>
>I have a grip to share with Oracle. I'm a small web developer that would
>like to use Oracle as my database backend for a small web business. I'm
>hoping that one day it will grow, but right now I'm small. Also, I want to
>have someone else host the web site. I would think that Oracle databases
>would be everywhere. Well their not.
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>I can find Microsoft SQL-Server everywhere at good prices. Now I know
>someone will say Oracle is better than MS-SQL. I agree that is why I would
>like to use them, but the cost of getting an ISP with Oracle is almost 10
>times the cost. Why? Is Oracle that weak in their ISP relationships, that
>they can't give the software away to ISPs.
>
>I spoke to a company last night that said MS wants them to use MS-SQL/ASP
>that MS gave them an a huge discount. I can't confirm this, but the ISP
>only offers MS-SQL and no Oracle.
>
>So I figured that Oracle would have a list of ISPs that offered web hosting.
>Then on their front page I see, "It only takes 7 seconds to lose a
>customer." Well at that point I have been trying for 2 hours to find a web
>hosting company. Well I didn't find a web page with web hosting using
>Oracle. But I did find an article of Oracle scalability. I read it. I
>agreed with them. That is when I was hit with an thought.
>
>What is scalability? Is scalability the means of growing large? No, but
>the means to handle small amounts to huge amounts. Performance wise, Oracle
>scales well. Price wise no scaling. Sure Standard PowerUnit pricing is
>only 10 bucks per PowerUnit. But its hard to sell that to myself, when I
>have no money. My project is sweet equity. I don't have the financial
>resources to use Oracle. And since Oracle doesn't have any web hosting
>deals
>with companies, I'm forces to use MS-SQL. Now I'm stuck using MS-SQL, which
>makes MS happy. Now I will use ASP and Visual Interdev. They keep
>mindshare in my mind. And if I ever have to consult a small business
>wanting to get on the web using a web host, I can only recommend MS
>products. Why? Because Oracle lost a customer in 7 seconds.
>
>Sincerely,
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>John Seitz
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Received on Thu Mar 23 2000 - 11:17:57 CST