Make that 3. 3. Governments. It isn't their money anyway. On 3/27/07, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/27/07, Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > Oh No, say it isn't so. I just came down to earth considering a > proposal for diagnostics and tuning. This definitely means yet another > pack! These guys are going to say 'you do it'... you do it so well now > :), and it's already paid for..... Hmmm, I thought that part could > be done with the free portion of OEM. > > My suspicion is that there are 2 types of customers where one will find that the various packs are added on without much argument: 1. Large data centers with large numbers of databases (100+?) 2. Data centers that are accustomed to mainframe software and HW pricing and find the add on packs a bargain. That's my guess anyway. And Oracle is apparently hitting sales targets for these things. If they weren't, I would have expected a price drop. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist