RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

[Kimberly Smith]

Title: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

So there, they saved money:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Baker
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:41 PM
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Subject: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

Actually, if you are found using items during audit, I believe you pay for the licensing and then pay another fee of 200% costs for illegal usage.

In other words, cost something like 3 times normal if found during audit.

jon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:29 PM
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Subject: RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

Doesn't sound like a trick to me...  Although I am sure they
are out for money, after all that is what the sales folks do, SELL.

If they had chosen to audit you the result would have been the same. 
You implemented you pay for it.  Sounds fair to me within the grounds
of Oracle pay through the teeth licensing.

-----Original Message-----
Canaan
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:03 AM
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.

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