Re: Re:Oracle licensing

2002-04-22 Thread Greg Moore
Best quote from this article describing California's recent purchase of Oracle software: "No [California] state agency has started using the Oracle software under the licensing agreement, signed almost a year ago. But the tab by June is expected to be $17 million." - Original Message -

Re:Oracle licensing

2002-04-22 Thread dgoulet
Humm, Can you say 'AW Sh&t!!!' Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Witold Iwaniec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4/19/2002 8:08 AM Hi There have been some postings related to Oracle licensing. An interesting article: http://www.sacbee.com/content/pol

Re:Oracle Licensing

2001-03-02 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 06:25 AM 3/2/01 -0800, you wrote: >the mire. At any rate, there are suppose to be two basic licensing schemes, and >GOD only knows how many "allowed" permutations: > >1) Power Units which equates to the number of processors times the speed of >the processors in Megahertz. Oh, BTW: it matt

Re:Oracle Licensing

2001-03-02 Thread dgoulet
Nick, After several years of directly dealing with Oracle, we've decided to go through a third party VAR to purchase software. The reason is the licensing methods that they use. Seems what you need to be a mathematician, astrologer, and soothsayer to figure it out. I've even had Oracle sal