Re: Oracle continues outsourcing jobs

From: Mark <simmons_mark_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 13 Mar 2004 10:00:49 -0800
Message-ID: <5366fb41.0403131000.5e1df5d1@posting.google.com>

Wow! That's a great point to consider.

I remember back in '91, I was over in Saudi Arabia. At that time, you could pick up ANY software you wanted. All you had to pay for was the price of the media (you weren't allowed to bring your own to the store).

Mark Simmons
Sr. Oracle DBA
Sabre-Holdings, Southlake, TX

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0403122353.38e3018a_at_posting.google.com>...

> "Bib Endum" <gd-newsgroups_at_spamex.com> wrote in message news:<Ms%3c.42566$lT6.217483_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...

> > "Sander Goudswaard" <sander_at_example.com> a écrit dans le message de
> > news:Xns94A9A33894595snafuexamplecom_at_127.0.0.1...
> > > "Bib Endum" <gd-newsgroups_at_spamex.com> wrote in
> > > news:Qv_3c.42298$lT6.213267_at_news20.bellglobal.com:
> > >
> > > > Read this morning in metalink headlines:
> > >
> > > This has nothing to do with outsourcing, but with the planning of support
> > > engineers and working hours. What makes you think that they mean
> > > 'outsourcing'?
> > >
> > > Sander
> >
> > Under the cover of "better service to our customer" we are handling your
> > tech support issue resolution to someone underpaid in another country, and
> > you, the customer, do not benefit of a price reduction in maintenance fees.
> > But our shareholders get more money.

> 
> I wonder how much they have considered: (not my original thought)
> 
> "Have you oracle-based app hosted in a country that does not offer any
> sort of legal recourse for licensing fraud."
> 
> want RAC + partitioning + olap on 8 cpus for the cost of hardware +
> bandwidth?
> not a problem. Instead of a $560,000 USD license cost, it will be,
> say, one tenth of that.
> 
> I wonder if the fully enabled products downloadable will soon be a
> thing of the past?
> 
> Pd

Received on Sat Mar 13 2004 - 12:00:49 CST