Re: petition

Niall Litchfield wrote:
> I have recently started a petition at
> http://www.petitiononline.com/oraman/petition.html calling on Oracle
> Corporation to allow all customers, not just enterprise edition
> customers to license the various management packs that are available
> with 10g at the same cost. My rationale is set out in my blog entry
> about this at
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/2005/07/10g-manageability.html
> Please take a look and if you agree with the petition sign it. I'm
> grateful for those who already have, especially if you are yourselves
> EE customers. If there is a sufficient number of people that feel the
> same way I will be drawing this to Oracle's attention. If there isn't
> I'll know that its just a pet peeve.
>
> Follow-ups should be directed either at me or in the comments on my
> blog entry. They don't seem appropriate in this forum.
>
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

Just signed and I fully support both THE initiative and YOUR initiative.

Oracle keeping some features separate as part of the EE license makes sense. But I can see no possible rationale under which anyone would step up to the delta between SE and EE just to get the Diagnostic Pack. And it would seem to me in Oracle best financial interest to take a customer's money if they wish to purchase one or more of the packs.

Willie ... how about a sliding incremental scale whereby someone could start with an SE license and by purchasing add-ons, partitioning, Diagnostic Pack, etc. work their way up to an EE license when they have purhase 80% or so of the EE features?

More revenue for Oracle and more happy productive customers. Not everyone can afford EE licenses in one swallow. But many might be able to get there over a period of time as they purchase add-on features.

Once again Niall ... thanks.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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