> But I have written quotes on both current to within the last 60 days. So
> I am not likely to be wrong. In fact I have it on good authority that
> given a quote from IBM or Microsoft ... Oracle will match it or beat it.
> I think like so much in this business ... the over-pricing of Oracle has
> become mythology rather than reality.
>
> --
> Daniel Morgan
Daniel, Oracle's practice of dubious 'internal' discounts in pricing are a
legend in iteself. As for list price comparisons for
the sake of objectivity, Oracle is consistently the most expensive solution
you can pick up. Since this thread is talking
about Microsoft, lets for a minute consider the SMB space. Oracle have
introduced a new low price SE1 version with
10g to compete in this space which is still 3 times more expensive than DB2
in cpu licensing and 2 times in per user
licensing. Moreover in terms of real usability, oracle fails to remind ppl
that SE and SE1 does not include key functionality
that oracle EE includes such as TAF, parallelism, label security, perf
/diag/monitoring tools etc. On top of all this another
gimmick is 'free' inclusion of RAC with SE. Yes, Oracle is trying to win on
windows, etc.. but so far the strategy really
has been more of a marketing ploy than realism.. something to get their RAC
acceptance numbers up.
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 21:07:34 CDT
