RE: OEM justification

Yes, my suspicions exactly. We shall see. They are willing to listen... but each bargaining point is requiring another pack. Got to make up my mind whether I'm going to propose all of them, or just one, two.  

Hmmm. We are doing so well with none too. How about, to keep up with the modern world you need modern tools?  

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:41 AM
To: Patterson, Joel
Cc: niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com; mzito_at_gridapp.com; Brandon.Allen_at_oneneck.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: OEM justification  

Make that 3.

3. Governments. It isn't their money anyway.

On 3/27/07, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com > wrote:  

On 3/27/07, Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com < Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com <mailto: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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