RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I hope you were being sarcastic there Mladen...

Patrice.


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Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for. 
They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

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  Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
  http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
 Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
 I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
 Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious 
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Goulet, Dick
I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market pressure, and failing DB sales. 
 I know it would be a relief here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL 
is in the details.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for. 
They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

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  Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
  http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
 Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
 I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
 Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious 
 when he wants...
 
 Cheers
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who 
download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was 
something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
users
license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server because
of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
the salesman
that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
Merryl-Lynch 
or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
buys a mindshare. 
Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
they do need a 
database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those people
and that
only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 



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 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market 
 pressure, and failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief 
 here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in 
 the details.
 
 Dick Goulet
 Senior Oracle DBA
 Oracle Certified 8i DBA
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for. 
 They work almost perfectly in almost every state.
 
 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA 
 
 
 
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   Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
   Something like that at the bottom of this article:
   
   http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
   
  
  Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
  
  I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
  
  Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
  when he wants...
  
  Cheers
  Nuno Souto
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) and we were
using Oracle, the sales rep never send us Christmas card for sure 

Stephane

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Mladen Gogala
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
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There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who
download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was
something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
users
license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server because
of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
the salesman
that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
Merryl-Lynch
or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
buys a mindshare.
Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
they do need a
database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those people
and that
only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



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 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door


 I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market
 pressure, and failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief
 here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in
 the details.

 Dick Goulet
 Senior Oracle DBA
 Oracle Certified 8i DBA

 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


 Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
 They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA



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  Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
   Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
   http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
  Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
  I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
  Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
  when he wants...
 
  Cheers
  Nuno Souto
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Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Abey Joseph
That same mentality applies to organizations with 100-200 users!  After the
latest meeting with the Oracle rep, damagement is seriously considering
alternate database systems.

Abey.

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 There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who
 download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was
 something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
 price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
 users
 license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server
because
 of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
 the salesman
 that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
 Merryl-Lynch
 or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
 buys a mindshare.
 Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
 they do need a
 database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those
people
 and that
 only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Speaking of non-profit organisations, what is Oracle's policy on that?

Do they sell Oracle software to non-profit groups?

Probably it's a small market at best, but Personal Oracle might meet their
needs.

Another group that comes to mind are high schools and colleges, they might
want to purchase 1 or 2 licenses for their students to play with.

Patrice.

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I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) and we were
using Oracle, the sales rep never send us Christmas card for sure 

Stephane

-Original Message-
Mladen Gogala
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who
download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was
something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
users
license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server because
of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
the salesman
that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
Merryl-Lynch
or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
buys a mindshare.
Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
they do need a
database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those people
and that
only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



 -Original Message-
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 Behalf Of Goulet, Dick
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door


 I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market
 pressure, and failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief
 here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in
 the details.

 Dick Goulet
 Senior Oracle DBA
 Oracle Certified 8i DBA

 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


 Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
 They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA



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  Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
   Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
   http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
  Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
  I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
  Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
  when he wants...
 
  Cheers
  Nuno Souto
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Standard life? I thought that you work for Oriole corp.?

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 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
 Behalf Of Stephane Paquette
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:39 AM
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 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) 
 and we were using Oracle, the sales rep never send us 
 Christmas card for sure 
 
 Stephane
 
 -Original Message-
 Mladen Gogala
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that 
 people who download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for 
 home support if it was something like $150/ year for my Linux 
 box. There should also be a low price for small companies wih 
 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16 users license for 
 around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server 
 because of the price and development tools availability as 
 well as the atitude of the salesman that he turned to. I know 
 that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not Merryl-Lynch 
 or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a 
 database in there buys a mindshare. Caterers have to keep 
 track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and they do 
 need a database. At present, there is a condescending 
 attitude toward those people and that only helps our favorite 
 company in Redmond, WA.
 
 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA
 
 
 
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  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 On Behalf 
  Of Goulet, Dick
  Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
  I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market 
 pressure, and 
  failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief here to see this 
  inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in the details.
 
  Dick Goulet
  Senior Oracle DBA
  Oracle Certified 8i DBA
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
  They work almost perfectly in almost every state.
 
  --
  Mladen Gogala
  Oracle DBA
 
 
 
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Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
Something like that at the bottom of this article:
   

 http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
   
  
   Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
  
   I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
  
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
At the time, no policy. Yes we were paying for the software.

Small market but a lot of visibility : IATA (International Air Transport
Association), ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) those 2 run
Oracle,  plus all the UN organizations are non profit organizations.



Stephane




-Original Message-
Boivin, Patrice J
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Speaking of non-profit organisations, what is Oracle's policy on that?

Do they sell Oracle software to non-profit groups?

Probably it's a small market at best, but Personal Oracle might meet their
needs.

Another group that comes to mind are high schools and colleges, they might
want to purchase 1 or 2 licenses for their students to play with.

Patrice.

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) and we were
using Oracle, the sales rep never send us Christmas card for sure 

Stephane

-Original Message-
Mladen Gogala
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who
download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was
something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
users
license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server because
of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
the salesman
that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
Merryl-Lynch
or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
buys a mindshare.
Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
they do need a
database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those people
and that
only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Goulet, Dick
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door


 I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market
 pressure, and failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief
 here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in
 the details.

 Dick Goulet
 Senior Oracle DBA
 Oracle Certified 8i DBA

 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


 Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
 They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

 --
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   Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
   http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
  Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
  I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
  Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
  when he wants...
 
  Cheers
  Nuno Souto
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
There is at least 2 Stephane : Stephane Faroult (Oriole), Stephane Paquette
(Standard Life)

Stephane

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Standard life? I thought that you work for Oriole corp.?

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 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:39 AM
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 I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org)
 and we were using Oracle, the sales rep never send us
 Christmas card for sure 

 Stephane

 -Original Message-
 Mladen Gogala
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


 There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that
 people who download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for
 home support if it was something like $150/ year for my Linux
 box. There should also be a low price for small companies wih
 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16 users license for
 around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server
 because of the price and development tools availability as
 well as the atitude of the salesman that he turned to. I know
 that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not Merryl-Lynch
 or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a
 database in there buys a mindshare. Caterers have to keep
 track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and they do
 need a database. At present, there is a condescending
 attitude toward those people and that only helps our favorite
 company in Redmond, WA.

 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA



  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Behalf
  Of Goulet, Dick
  Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
  I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market
 pressure, and
  failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief here to see this
  inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in the details.
 
  Dick Goulet
  Senior Oracle DBA
  Oracle Certified 8i DBA
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
  They work almost perfectly in almost every state.
 
  --
  Mladen Gogala
  Oracle DBA
 
 
 
   -Original Message-
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 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
   Of Nuno Pinto do Souto
   Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:45 PM
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Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
Something like that at the bottom of this article:
   
   
 http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
   
  
   Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
  
   I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
  
   Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding
 Obvious when
   he wants...
  
   Cheers
   Nuno Souto
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Nelson Flores
At my university we were given Oracle licences .. as well as substantial
gifts from Sun (Servers, workstations etc)... that way we finished
University with good working knowledge of Solaris and Oracle on Solaris... 

Which is of course in their best interest... :S 


-Mensaje original-
De: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Enviado el: jueves, 11 de septiembre de 2003 12:54
Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Asunto: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

Speaking of non-profit organisations, what is Oracle's policy on that?

Do they sell Oracle software to non-profit groups?

Probably it's a small market at best, but Personal Oracle might meet their
needs.

Another group that comes to mind are high schools and colleges, they might
want to purchase 1 or 2 licenses for their students to play with.

Patrice.

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) and we were
using Oracle, the sales rep never send us Christmas card for sure 

Stephane

-Original Message-
Mladen Gogala
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


There should be a low level pricing for home users, so that people who
download oracle may use metalink. I would pay for home support if it was
something like $150/ year for my Linux box. There should also be a low
price for small companies wih 16 users. One should be able to buy a 16
users
license for around $2000. I know a caterer that went with SQL Server because
of the price and development tools availability as well as the atitude of
the salesman
that he turned to. I know that a small CT caterer with 9 employees is not
Merryl-Lynch
or Chase, but it is a business nevertheless and having a database in there
buys a mindshare.
Caterers have to keep track of  the orders, ingredients and schedules and
they do need a
database. At present, there is a condescending attitude toward those people
and that
only helps our favorite company in Redmond, WA.

--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of Goulet, Dick
 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door


 I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market
 pressure, and failing DB sales.  I know it would be a relief
 here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in
 the details.

 Dick Goulet
 Senior Oracle DBA
 Oracle Certified 8i DBA

 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:59 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


 Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for.
 They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

 --
 Mladen Gogala
 Oracle DBA



  -Original Message-
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  Behalf Of Nuno Pinto do Souto
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:45 PM
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  Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
   Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
   http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
  Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
  I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
  Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
  when he wants...
 
  Cheers
  Nuno Souto
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Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread rgaffuri
is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle software and just buy the 
pieces you want to use or do you always have to buy the whole bundle? 

what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can you just get pieces? 
 
 From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 Hi,
 I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it to be used on a
 machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, which for
 this company is a problem because we generally run Oracle on Sun servers.
 Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle releases.
 
 Regards
 
 Pete
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the customers to buy
 EE licences?
 
 Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
 
 Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very compatible with
 OracleStore, it seems to me.
 
 Patrice.
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 We also has site licensing.
 It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
 
 Yechiel Adar
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ryan
   Yes, MUCH more affordable, assuming you can live with the limitations.
Check Oracle Store for current prices. I understand the 4-CPU limit still
remains. There aren't too many unbundling options. 

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle software and
just buy the pieces you want to use or do you always have to buy the whole
bundle? 

what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can you just get
pieces? 
 
 From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 Hi,
 I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it to be used on a
 machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, which for
 this company is a problem because we generally run Oracle on Sun servers.
 Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle releases.
 
 Regards
 
 Pete
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the customers to
buy
 EE licences?
 
 Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
 
 Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very compatible with
 OracleStore, it seems to me.
 
 Patrice.
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 We also has site licensing.
 It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
 
 Yechiel Adar
 Mehish
 
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
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 Subject: Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle 
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you 
 always have to buy the whole bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can 
 you just get pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it 
 to be used 
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, 
  which for this company is a problem because we generally 
 run Oracle on 
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle 
  releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the 
 customers 
  to buy EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very 
 compatible 
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  We also has site licensing.
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread rgaffuri
how restrictive are db2 and sql server on bundling licenses? and CPU limitations? 
 
 From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 10:29:25 EDT
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 Ryan
Yes, MUCH more affordable, assuming you can live with the limitations.
 Check Oracle Store for current prices. I understand the 4-CPU limit still
 remains. There aren't too many unbundling options. 
 
 Dennis Williams
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 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle software and
 just buy the pieces you want to use or do you always have to buy the whole
 bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can you just get
 pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it to be used on a
  machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, which for
  this company is a problem because we generally run Oracle on Sun servers.
  Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the customers to
 buy
  EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very compatible with
  OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
  
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
  
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
... You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
--
Mladen Gogala
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 -Original Message-
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 Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:15 AM
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 Subject: Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle 
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you 
 always have to buy the whole bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can 
 you just get pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it 
 to be used 
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, 
  which for this company is a problem because we generally 
 run Oracle on 
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle 
  releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the 
 customers 
  to buy EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very 
 compatible 
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
  
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
  
  --
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  -- 
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Goulet, Dick
Dennis,

Do you have the source of this report???

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
... You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
 Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:15 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle 
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you 
 always have to buy the whole bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can 
 you just get pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it 
 to be used 
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, 
  which for this company is a problem because we generally 
 run Oracle on 
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle 
  releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the 
 customers 
  to buy EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very 
 compatible 
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
  
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
  
  --
  Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
  -- 
  Author: Boivin, Patrice J
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dick - Sorry, Infoworld, I didn't realize the link would get stripped off.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=443575:1F31A10

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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-Original Message-
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Dennis,

Do you have the source of this report???

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
.. You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
 Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:15 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 
 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle 
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you 
 always have to buy the whole bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can 
 you just get pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it 
 to be used 
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, 
  which for this company is a problem because we generally 
 run Oracle on 
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle 
  releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the 
 customers 
  to buy EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very 
 compatible 
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  
  
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
  
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
  
  --
  Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
  -- 
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Stephane Paquette
Here it is :
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/10/HNellisonpricing_1.html


Stephane
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Goulet, Dick
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:39 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Dennis,

Do you have the source of this report???

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
.. You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

-Original Message-
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
 Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:15 AM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 Subject: Re: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door


 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you
 always have to buy the whole bundle?

 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can
 you just get pieces?
 
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it
 to be used
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs,
  which for this company is a problem because we generally
 run Oracle on
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle
  releases.
 
  Regards
 
  Pete
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the
 customers
  to buy EE licences?
 
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
 
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very
 compatible
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
 
  Patrice.
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
 
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
 
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  Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Something like that at the bottom of this article:

http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html

Patrice.

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Dennis,

Do you have the source of this report???

Dick Goulet
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The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
.. You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

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For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
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 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle 
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you 
 always have to buy the whole bundle? 
 
 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can 
 you just get pieces? 
  
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
  
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it 
 to be used 
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs, 
  which for this company is a problem because we generally 
 run Oracle on 
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle 
  releases.
  
  Regards
  
  Pete
  
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  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the 
 customers 
  to buy EE licences?
  
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
  
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very 
 compatible 
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
  
  Patrice.
  
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  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
  
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
  
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RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Stephane Paquette
I'm interested in the report also.


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Goulet, Dick
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:39 PM
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Dennis,

Do you have the source of this report???

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:10 PM
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The following may be pertinent to the current discussion of Oracle pricing
models.

Ellison sees new software pricing model
Posted September 10, 5:07 a.m. Pacific Time

SAN FRANCISCO -- The model of pricing enterprise software on a per-processor
basis should be replaced with a flat annual fee that allows businesses to
use as much software as they want, Oracle Corp.'s chairman and chief
executive officer Larry Ellison said Tuesday.

It becomes very hard to count processors and to count users, Ellison said,
responding to a question on the future of software pricing at the
OracleWorld show. Where I think we'll go is towards enterprise licensing.
... You pay an annual recurring fee and use as much software as you want,
and I think that's a much more sensible model to use.   In News

-Original Message-
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For 9iAS, you have to get the whole bundle. It doesn't include Excedrin, so
desperately needed by anybody unfortunate enough to have to deal with 9iAS.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



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 is SE alot more affordable than EE? CAn you un-bundle Oracle
 software and just buy the pieces you want to use or do you
 always have to buy the whole bundle?

 what about 9iAS? do you have to buy the whole bundle or can
 you just get pieces?
 
  From: Hitchman, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2003/09/10 Wed AM 09:54:35 EDT
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
  Hi,
  I looked into SE but found that Oracle would not allow it
 to be used
  on a machine that has 4 or more CPUs or can support that many CPUs,
  which for this company is a problem because we generally
 run Oracle on
  Sun servers. Don't know if that has changed now with later Oracle
  releases.
 
  Regards
 
  Pete
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: 10 September 2003 13:21
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  When negotiating site licensing, does Oracle encourage the
 customers
  to buy EE licences?
 
  Or can people negotiate for a mix of EE or SE.
 
  Just curious, I don't know how that would work -- not very
 compatible
  with OracleStore, it seems to me.
 
  Patrice.
 
  -Original Message-
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:59 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
  We also has site licensing.
  It was done 3-4 years ago. Maybe Oracle changed tactics since then.
 
  Yechiel Adar
  Mehish
 
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Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Nuno Pinto do Souto
 Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Something like that at the bottom of this article:
 
 http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
 

Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users

I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?

Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious
when he wants...

Cheers
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RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
Nope, that's what voting machines are invented for. 
They work almost perfectly in almost every state.

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  Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  Something like that at the bottom of this article:
  
  http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html
  
 
 Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users
 
 I thought that's what count(*) was invented for?
 
 Larry can truly be the Prime Minister of the Bleeding Obvious 
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Re: Re: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-08 Thread rgaffuri
oracle is still the only one out there that has multi-version read consistency? I 
thought postre-gre sql had it? anyone else? everyone has row level locking right? 
 
 From: Mogens Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2003/09/08 Mon AM 01:09:25 EDT
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: DB2 has a foot in the door
 
 Cost is the easy one. They run comparable to Microsoft or thereabout. 
 They have various options I haven't looked at yet, that might make them 
 more expensive than that. The DB2 on mainframes and the DB2 on Unix, for 
 instance, were written by different teams. Which might explain why they 
 didn't port the time-based instrumentation from the mainframe 
 environment to the Unix port. So yeah, you probably can't just take code 
 and move it. They have a pretty good porting tool between Oracle and 
 DB2, though. We thought that was rather neat when we ran it against one 
 of our customer's database definitions. The PL/SQL conversion came out 
 alright, too, although there of course are things they can't do and vice 
 versa.
 
 Broadly speaking, I think you can divide the databases of the world into 
 three categories:
 
 1. Oracle, with very good locking strategies, very good read consistency 
 model, very good performance measurement instrumentation (time-based).
 2. Other relational databases such as DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, Informix, 
 etc. where they all share the same (to us Oracle-techies) strange 
 locking philosophy, the same consistency model where you have to code 
 more, and no wait-interface.
 3. The rest.
 
 re 2: The locking philosophy difference means that you can still have 
 readers block writers and writers block readers, unless you specifically 
 handle how to do it on the transactional level. This explains why 
 cloning databases for reporting purposes is so popular with other 
 databases compared to the Oracle world :).
 
 IBM has pointed out in various whitepapers something which to us doesn't 
 make sense, but which might make sense to others: If you want to have a 
 portable application, you should probably choose one of the category II 
 databases, since they're all pretty much alike in their behaviour on the 
 important aspects of locking and read consistency. If you have to go to 
 or from Oracle to or from another database, you'd have to change code a 
 good deal or live with non-optimal conditions after the migration.
 
 Mogens
 
 
 Tom Ryan wrote:
 
 have you used DB2? How does it compare to Oracle? Ive seen tom kyte write
 that each platform that DB2 runs on is in essence a different database and
 you cant take code from one platform and move it to another.
 
 are the features comparable? what about cost?
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 Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:54 AM
 
 
   
 
 VERY interesting. They refused to do site licensing at a 2
 installation here. Thank you for this tip.
 
 Rachel Carmichael wrote:
 
 
 
 Oracle does site licensing... but only if you are a very very large
 corporation. Citibank (when I worked there) had one. The company I work
 for now has one.
 
 So I don't ask do we have a license when I want to install a new
 version of Oracle, even if it is a new platform
 
 One of the few things that is easier working in a rigid corporate
 environment
 
 
 --- Mogens_Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
   
 
 There's one thing that IBM can do, which Microsoft and Oracle can't
 offer: They do site licenses as well as cpu and user licensing. That
 just gives them an incredible advantage to management and others who
 can
 stop thinking about whether they should buy another server, move
 stuff
 
 
 from one server to the other, etc. I can't believe Oracle and
   
 
 Microsoft
 are not doing it (I think I can guess, but it's still not good).
 
 Mladen Gogala wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 I believe that the answer to Stephane's question is obvious:
 Oracle 10g will cost 10 grands/ CPU. That's where the letter g
 is coming from.
 
 --
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 Oracle DBA
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 DENNIS WILLIAMS
 Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:30 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 Stephane
   We've been very excited about Oracle Standard Edition. Helped
 
 
   
 
 stave off
 
 
 
 
 the interest in MS SQL. Given the budget pressures at many
 
 
   
 
 organizations,
 
 
 
 
 I'm surprised we don't hear more about this alternative.
 
 Dennis Williams
 DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
 Lifetouch, Inc.
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 -Original Message-
 Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:09 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
 
 
 Hi all,
 
 We're an Oracle shop, over 140 Oracle instances.
 Today, architecture has chosen IBM DB2 for BI projects.
 The next step I guessed will be to choose DB2 for the new
 
 
   
 
 transactionnal
 
 
 
 
 applications also.
 
 IBM offers DB2