Re: Oracle Hungry for Money

Hey Scott,
At least you get to talk to your sales rep. We have had a "new" one for almost a year and I have yet to meet him. I still keep asking about the $3,400 that Oracle owes us from the 2000 license snafu and he is suddenly busy and has to go. "But I'll look into it and get back to you" yea right, okay, really.
 Thanks for the heads up but we just joined the state licensing and we are licensed for darn near everything. Still can't use it though. We are on Novell with Oracle 7.3.4.
I would check into the license agreement that you have purchased. ROR mª¿ªm

>>> srcdco_at_RITVAX.RIT.EDU 03/13/02 02:02PM >>>
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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