Re: petition

HansF wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:20:06 -0700, Mark Townsend interested us by
> writing:
>
> >
> >
> > As such, the full functionality of Diag and Tuning pack seemed to be
> > overkill given this target environment.

Don't agree with that, given 50-100G 100-user no-DBA environments with CBO. Agree with Daniel's partitioning observation. Live in fear that customers will make the "no-partitioning-needed-now" decision while upgrading.

>
> The target is Small Business, who may not be able to afford EE - but CAN
> often afford competent consultants who know how to use the tools in
> question.
>

So that would imply selling portable instance-independent toolsets? I've found it's tough to convince a smaller business to buy something just for me to use, even with free download trials. I can't afford corporate-priced things myself. I don't want to have to say "I won't work for you unless you buy EE... or Quest." I don't want to have to play games to get around silly licensing decisions.

I think a business case could be made of the form "if we give away these tools for free [well, included in any license], that would _help sell the apps_ without a big hit on revenue." Trying to make every little thing a profit center is not strategically sound.

"Small additional cost" is, of course, relative.

jg

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