Re: Money is a great thing, but strong ethic is better (I think, but Oracle not)

Noons <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<Xns9300CC10E6475mineminemine_at_210.49.20.254>...
> "Andy" <andy.spaven_at_eps-hq.co.uk> wrote in
> news:e7CT9.3410$9R.11845860_at_newsr2.u-net.net and I quote:

> Yeah, but you could almost achieve the same thing
> with MTS and Oracle never charged more for this...
> IMHO, they should have some form of license for this
> situation but based on estimated concurrent users.
> Dusan's environment is quite common.
>
> Any attempt to capitalize on that will cause Oracle
> problems in the long run. Of course, by then the
> arsehole who came up with that idea will be long gone
> and out of reach for responsibility. Oh well, isn't
> IT such a great industry...

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can see this thinking even in other industries today. It seems to me like a lot of companies want to survive nowadays economic downturn on behalf of their sorry customers. I think this is very shorsightited, because you cannot (I believe) win battle against your own customers. If your customer is not gonna to win, you're gonna lose together with him.

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