Re: Oracle Hungry for Money

That's what we thought, too. Apparently, it isn't. Actually, what Cameron told me was that our license pre-dates the option, so by default it isn't included. The license was purchased on version 7.2.

James Howerton wrote:

> Scott,
>
> We also have a higher ed site liscense, isn't partitioning included in
> the "Enterprise Edition"???
>
> ...JIM...
>
> >>> srcdco_at_ritvax.rit.edu 3/13/02 1:02:33 PM >>>
> 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.
>
> --
> Scott Canaan (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
> (585) 475-7886
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> into it" - Tom Lehrer
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it" - Tom Lehrer


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