Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

From: Malcolm Dunnett <nothome_at_spammers.are.scum>
Date: 23 Aug 2006 15:31:55 -0700
Message-ID: <JKuDha7OVltP@malvm9.mala.bc.ca>

In article <44ECC148.275E873B_at_teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com> writes:
> DA Morgan wrote:

>> Just don't have any requirement to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, PIPEDA,
>> FACTA, HIPAA, BASEL II, or require scalability, performance, or
>> failover. Works like a charm if you just go back to the 1990s.

>
> Oracle could respond: If you need those things, then you need the
> Enterpri$e edition.

To be fair to Oracle I should point out that they have suggested they might offer discounts on Enterprise Edition purchases for current Standard Edition on VMS users, but they've not put a figure to those discounts or discussed what would happen to software support costs or what we'd have to pay if we wanted to upgrade ( eg add another CPU ) in the future.

If Oracle maintains they can't produce a Standard Edition for VMS then what I'd rather they offer is a "licensing only" Standard Edition for VMS - ie let me pay the Standard Edition price for any current or new purchases as long as I sign an agreement to not use any of the Enterprise Edition features. Granted this works on the honor system, but so does any Oracle installation - technically speaking if I'm dishonest I could already download an "evaluation" version of Oracle and just use it forever - so such an agreement doesn't put Oracle at any greater risk of licensing abuse than they already have. Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 17:31:55 CDT