Actually when you think about it now, it makes sense. Oracle is targeting the enterprise, and therefore has no need to talk to the small guys since it cannot make any money off their support costs. They are focusing on their core market that they understand and are leaving the SMBs to companies that can afford to support them
Nothing personal, just business. Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Okui [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:32 AM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] MySQL - Oracle version On 4 Nov, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Tim Schofield wrote: > These prices aren't really very different to the previous prices are > they Yes they are. What you get for $2,000 today you could get for $600 - somewhat. Oracle's distinguishing the support based on features/type of software you get rather than Sun's old model of 'levels of support'. I think the $10,000 option was 1/2 that and I don't remember any socket limitations. <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/03/oracle_mysql_price_hike/> -- patrick _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
