Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

Malcolm Dunnett wrote:
> In article <1156309756.359226_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>,
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> writes:

>> I would argue that Standard Edition is not mission critical for
>> you as you can always substitute Enterprise Edition. What may
>> matter is the cost of the license. And here is where you need
>> to invite back that lovely sales rep and ask them how hard they
>> can work, between now and license renewal time, to get that EE
>> license to match the cost of the SE license.


> 

>     I'm investigating that angle. Perhaps something can

A lot less than changing vendors and, once again, very negotiable. Invite the sales rep. to save his client from going to the dark side.

> The other option is to get a linux box and move the SE licenses
> to it. Of course neither of these solutions is as good as convincing
> Oracle to keep offering SE on VMS.

Personally I'd move to Linux as fast as I could. Consider the tremendous financial savings for support as well as the fact that patches will show up far faster.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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