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I think you will find that there are lots of people out there who
are using partitioning without paying for it.... It has always been
an extra cost option....
My problem is that Oracle installs it as a default option when you install the RDBMS, which I think is wrong. If you have an extra cost option, then it should not be available by default.
MOVMMY, Robert
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration
The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:03 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Watch out! I just got off the phone with our Oracle "sales rep". He
was asking me if I needed information on Partitioning or OLAP for our
data warehouse project. I told him that we are on 8.1.7, so the OLAP
option isn't available. To keep him from going into a long speil on
Partitioning, I told him that I have already implemented that, which is
true.
He jumped on that and told me that we aren't licensed for it. He
followed up with sending me a quote for $23,800 to cover the fact that
we are using the option, which we didn't pay for. I was always told
that we have a "site" license (higher ed), and he said that our license
was purchased prior to Partioning being available, so that doesn't
count.
I'm telling everyone about this as a heads-up. It appears that Oracle is digging for money, and I feel that the approach that was used was done to trick me into admitting that I had implemented the feature.
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