Re: OEM justification

On 3/27/07, Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com <Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com> wrote:
>
> Oh No, say it isn't so. I just came down to earth considering a
> proposal for diagnostics and tuning. This definitely means yet another
> pack! These guys are going to say 'you do it'... you do it so well now
> :), and it's already paid for..... Hmmm, I thought that part could
> be done with the free portion of OEM.
>
>

My suspicion is that there are 2 types of customers where one will find that the various packs are added on without much argument:

1. Large data centers with large numbers of databases (100+?)
2. Data centers that are accustomed to mainframe software and HW pricing and find the add on packs a bargain.

That's my guess anyway.

And Oracle is apparently hitting sales targets for these things. If they weren't, I would have expected a price drop.

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Jared Still
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