Speaking of hungry for money, I have an interesting anecdote about our Oracle contract negotiations this year. Last year Oracle tried to make us switch from per user to server based licensing for Oracle Express. It was going to double our maintenance cost, plus they tried to tack on a $10K fee for their processing costs for making the swtich. We 'politely' declined to change.
This year, due to an unfavorable business climate, our per user requirements are half of last year. When we received the maintenance quote my manager contacted the account rep and asked for a new quote with 1/2 the users. He received a new quote with 1/2 the users and a per user cost that was twice that on the previous quote. When he inquired how that could be, he was told that maintenace costs are determined by taking last years maintenance amount, adding 15% and then dividing by the number of users to get the cost per user. I guess you have to admire their guts in admitting something like that ... :-) -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Watch out! I just got off the phone with our Oracle "sales rep". He was asking me if I needed information on Partitioning or OLAP for our data warehouse project. I told him that we are on 8.1.7, so the OLAP option isn't available. To keep him from going into a long speil on Partitioning, I told him that I have already implemented that, which is true. He jumped on that and told me that we aren't licensed for it. He followed up with sending me a quote for $23,800 to cover the fact that we are using the option, which we didn't pay for. I was always told that we have a "site" license (higher ed), and he said that our license was purchased prior to Partioning being available, so that doesn't count. I'm telling everyone about this as a heads-up. It appears that Oracle is digging for money, and I feel that the approach that was used was done to trick me into admitting that I had implemented the feature. -- Scott Canaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (585) 475-7886 "Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it" - Tom Lehrer -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Canaan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.com -- Author: Seefelt, Beth INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).
