Re:Oracle Licensing

From: Dennis Taylor <ismgr_at_pctc.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:52:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002C261F.20010302083023@fatcity.com>

At 06:25 AM 3/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
>the mire. At any rate, there are suppose to be two basic licensing
schemes, and
>GOD only knows how many "allowed" permutations:
>
> 1) Power Units which equates to the number of processors times the
speed of
>the processors in Megahertz. Oh, BTW: it matters if their Intel or Risc
>processors too. Risc processors are more expensive. In general this is the
>MOST expensive way to go.
>

I went to the oracle site and did some calcs for adding users to Oracle Enterprise. Kept sayin g to myself, "Naw, they must mean *hundreds* of megahertz....". Anyway, for a very behind-the-curve system (2x200mhz ppro's), it works out to $4000 per additional user.

Or I can look at Interbase/Firebird, which is free.

Today I will be assigning one of my staff the task of downloading, installing, and evaluating Firebird.

The only way I can imagine that Oracle thinking can be going is: "Hey, revenues are dropping because of competition from free and less expensive dbms's". "No problem. Raise prices to make up the shortfall". Then I say to myself, "Naw, no-one can be that stupid". Then I check the per-user prices again....

Dennis Taylor

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