Did they get a 75% discount?....if not shame on the manager :) brian
-----Original Message----- Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle does site licensing... but only if you are a very very large corporation. Citibank (when I worked there) had one. The company I work for now has one. So I don't ask "do we have a license" when I want to install a new version of Oracle, even if it is a new platform One of the few things that is easier working in a rigid corporate environment --- Mogens_Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's one thing that IBM can do, which Microsoft and Oracle can't > offer: They do site licenses as well as cpu and user licensing. That > just gives them an incredible advantage to management and others who > can > stop thinking about whether they should buy another server, move > stuff > from one server to the other, etc. I can't believe Oracle and > Microsoft > are not doing it (I think I can guess, but it's still not good). > > Mladen Gogala wrote: > > >I believe that the answer to Stephane's question is obvious: > >Oracle 10g will cost 10 grands/ CPU. That's where the letter "g" > >is coming from. > > > >-- > >Mladen Gogala > >Oracle DBA > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >DENNIS WILLIAMS > >Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:30 PM > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > >Stephane > > We've been very excited about Oracle Standard Edition. Helped > stave off > >the interest in MS SQL. Given the budget pressures at many > organizations, > >I'm surprised we don't hear more about this alternative. > > > >Dennis Williams > >DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA > >Lifetouch, Inc. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:09 PM > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > >Hi all, > > > >We're an Oracle shop, over 140 Oracle instances. > >Today, architecture has chosen IBM DB2 for BI projects. > >The next step I guessed will be to choose DB2 for the new > transactionnal > >applications also. > > > >IBM offers DB2 at 25% less than Oracle. > > > >I wonder if Oracle 10G will come with a new pricing structure ? > > > > > >Stephane Paquette > >Administrateur de bases de donnees > >Database Administrator > >Standard Life > >www.standardlife.ca > >Tel. (514) 499-7999 7470 and (514) 925-7187 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mogens_N=F8rgaard?= > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Spears, Brian INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
