> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Maria - Actually, I would think the best time to contact
> Oracle sales is when you don't have money. Good sales people
> can smell money. ;-)
Heh.
> Some software companies are very liberal about providing
> their product for development and training purposes. My
> impression has been that Oracle is NOT one of those
> companies.
Um, no.
For development they can't be beat; the only thing I miss out on is Metalink, but my clients usually provide a (legal) access path for that. OTN is fantastic for developers.
However, for training this statement is true. I ran into this in a big way when working for a smallish SW company. We developed a slick method of rolling out the product to a large-scale enterprise, partially using some proprietary Oracle objects (sequences, PL/SQL, etc). Oracle had no problem with this. The problem occurred, however, when we wanted to hold private classes to train our consultants and implementation partners on this method. We ended up having to buy licenses, and eventually moving the tool to a non-platform specific means.
