Re: OCM funny pre-requists - two advanced courses from OU.

Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us apparently said,on my timestamp of 30/08/2005 1:58 PM:

> Why does Oracle not get the message that so many of us in the field have
> - which is - the prices for their licenses versus the competition isn't
> completely warranted. I still get "we are the best and we know it" from
> Oracle sales support versus concrete comparisons.

But look at the value: you get a connection to Metalink so you can work around all the bugs! Ain't that grand? (after shelling out more than anywhere else for the sw?)

> Plus my management is looking at opensource RDBMS' for anything we can
> run on it.

Aye! I'm seeing that too. Spot the species about to change its marketing stripes...

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