Re: OEM justification

Make that 3.

3. Governments. It isn't their money anyway.

On 3/27/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On 3/27/07, Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com >
> wrote:
> >
> > Oh No, say it isn't so. I just came down to earth considering a
> > proposal for diagnostics and tuning. This definitely means yet another
> > pack! These guys are going to say 'you do it'... you do it so well now
> > :), and it's already paid for..... Hmmm, I thought that part could
> > be done with the free portion of OEM.
> >
> >
> My suspicion is that there are 2 types of customers where one will
> find that the various packs are added on without much argument:
>
> 1. Large data centers with large numbers of databases (100+?)
>
> 2. Data centers that are accustomed to mainframe software and
> HW pricing and find the add on packs a bargain.
>
> That's my guess anyway.
>
> And Oracle is apparently hitting sales targets for these things.
> If they weren't, I would have expected a price drop.
>
> --
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>

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