Oracle-L: RE: Oracle Licensing

From: Abdul Aleem <dmit_at_beaconhouse.edu.pk>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 02:23:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00430A1D.20020322022323@fatcity.com>

Hi,

A late response, but this seems like:

Oracle saying: This is my product and this is how we want to sell, buy or leave. And they have considered every possibility of taking advantage or they dictate it the way it suites them.

How about saying back: What ever is your product, we want to buy like this sell or don't. (Hard to say since we want to have the product).

So have to live with it.

Aleem
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Sent:	Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:43 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Re[2]: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users

Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 5:58:19 PM, you wrote:

KL> For example, we support a 911 center.  An Oracle-based application
KL> displays the caller's information on a screen to the call taker.  If you
KL> look in our database, you will see one user - it is the connection made

KL> the software that displays the caller's info.  The app maintains one
KL> connection and displays the data on the appropriate screen.  Oracle is
KL> trying to tell us the the 911 callers are the "users". Give me a break!

At
KL> best, the call takers might be the users.

Oracle once tried to sell me a license for every resident in the City of Columbus too, and for much the same reason. This was for a dial-up interactive voice-response system. It took me awhile, but I eventually got hold of a sales person with a CLUE, and we ended counting each incomming phone line as a user.

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick
mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com * http://ValleySpur.com

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RE: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users