Not so far fetched. My company lost several very large clients to DB2 and I am without a job.
Martin Kendall wrote:
I'm following this thread and a worrying thought has crossed my mind:-If Oracle carries on with this pricing model, soon we will all be lookingfor a new job......scary :-)Martin Kendall-----Original Message-----Sent: 02 March 2001 22:00To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LLast time I danced with our sales rep, power units were per server, not peruser... so the power unit price would be 400*100 = 40,000 for an unlimited(Ha!at 200mhz?) number of users. If you ask nicely, yours may agree to convertanyconcurrent or named user licenses you have into power unit credits.Dennis Taylor wrote:
At 06:25 AM 3/2/01 -0800, you wrote:the mire. At any rate, there are suppose to be two basic licensingschemes, andGOD only knows how many "allowed" permutations: 1) Power Units which equates to the number of processors times thespeed ofthe processors in Megahertz. Oh, BTW: it matters if their Intel or Riscprocessors 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 OracleEnterprise. Kept sayin g to myself, "Naw, they must mean *hundreds* ofmegahertz....". Anyway, for a very behind-the-curve system (2x200mhzppro'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 expensivedbms's". "No problem. Raise prices to make up the shortfall". Then I say
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myself, "Naw, no-one can be that stupid". Then I check the per-user pricesagain....Dennis Taylor--------------------------------Good we must love, and must hate ill,For ill is ill, and good good still.--Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com--Author: Dennis Taylor INET: ismgr@pctc.comFat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists--------------------------------------------------------------------To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail messageto: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and inthe messag!
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