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
>

I will follow up here as I was involved in the initial and subsequent decisions, and while the petition is useful as part of the decision making process, the dialog is typically more useful.

Remember that SE and SE1 are targetted at small enterprises or departmental deployments, running non-mission critical applications, on small machines, typically with less than a couple of 100 of GB of data, typically with a small number of users (perhaps no more than 100 concurrent), and where we do not believe there is a full time DBA, if any at all. Anybody outside of these simple criteria we think is actually running EE (and we have this user base surveys that seem to back this categorization up)

As such, the full functionality of Diag and Tuning pack seemed to be overkill given this target environment.

Now either we have the target wrong, in which case some demographics about what people are actually doing with SE or SE1 would help, or the full functionality of the packs are required for even very simple environments, in which case we have the product wrong, or something in-between is required, in which case I would love to hear what people think should be in the in-between.

Comments ? Received on Tue Jul 19 2005 - 22:20:06 CDT