RE: OEM justification
- From: <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:14:06 -0400
Thanks, I'll explore that route. Maybe I should modify the question to.
Can you live without it? Do you use it and would you change, (Once
used, never turn back)?
(I know you 'can' do it the 'ol fashioned way... but is it worth it to
you? I'll diagnose it for us).
Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Thomas [mailto:nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:01 AM
To: Patterson, Joel; oracle-l
Subject: Re: OEM justification
Joel
Speaking as a former sales engineer, I would suggest you get a nice man
(sorry, person) at Oracle to do the donkey work for you. There should be
some kind of ROI model floating around inside Oracle Corp somewhere into
which you can plug some assumptions, turn the handle and get some kind
of ROI / time to payback. Along with the quantitive model should go all
the qualitative benefits. Of course you should sanity check the results
for your context; ie set your own staff costs, cost of maintaining your
existing DBA scripts etc, and ruthlessly cut out the 'benefit' of pieces
you won't use, for example. You can also add benefits which you've
thought of and Oracle hasn't. But it should give you a ballpark figure
and if even if the numbers are total gibberish, it should give you
something to start your own analysis with.
If your friendly Oracle SE can't produce this more or less immediately -
ie can't qualify/quantify the benefits to you of OEM - you should
question whether you really want to give him any of your company's hard
earned cash for it.
Same of course would apply to any vendor's equivalent product...
Cheers Nigel
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