Yup, I'm with Bill on this one too. Your second consultant had it
right. I had something similar, wanted to have a web server connect to
an Oracle database, very small number of hits so I just wanted my web
server to maybe have at most 10 connects live at any one time. Talked
to Oracle and since I have a potential user base of 10,000 they wanted
me to buy concurrent licensing for 40% of my users, 4,000 licenses o at
over 2000 a pop (with support). Goodbye Oracle, hello SQLServer ... If
they don't figure this out soon Oracle are gonna price themselves out of
existence. And I'm a big Oracle fan so I'm hoping.
Bill Despeaux wrote:
>
> I think your second consultant had it right. They will soak you for as much
> as they can. The $1,900 figure is probably the per seat charge which would
> put you around 40K total.
>
> My personal experience was with one client with a large site license who
> wanted to open up part of one database to about 30 external clients. Oracle
> argued that each client could have hundreds or thousands of employees so
> there was potential for hundreds of thousands of users. This was rediculous
> as we were expecting only 30-60 hits per MONTH! but the client was
> intimidated and bought a server license for a 2 cpu box at a cost of about
> $200K. As it turns out, since they are not using Oracle's web server
> product, this all may have been covered under their existing contract.
>
> Will Oracle refund their money? I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 07:51:17 CDT
