Re: oracle has customers over a barrel

From: grendal <im_gumby_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <55151966-b21b-4f42-abca-6e13e88b3474_at_o9g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>

On Sep 11, 4:14 pm, joel garry <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:

> It is also not discrete, as no one pays list price if they have any
> choice, which they would if it were a free market, but even though it
> isn't they still don't.
>

 No one pays list? Hmmm tell that to the SMB customers who don't purchase enough of IBM's product to warrant steep discounting. And yes, if you bargin right and you're big enough... you *can* get discounts off of J level pricing. ;-) Received on Sat Sep 12 2009 - 09:14:16 CDT