May I inquire as to why this would be off-topic for this forum? I mean, we're talking about way more off-topic things happily every day. This item is about... SE vs EE, features included in each, Oracle pricing models, Oracle licensing models. I mean, is it just me, or is this bang-on on topic for oracle-l? Paul -- Paul Vallee President, The Pythian Group, Inc. http://www.pythian.com On 7/13/05, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve has kindly given me permission to post this short note here. > > I have recently started a petition at > http://www.petitiononline.com/oraman/petition.html calling > on Oracle Corporation to allow all customers, not just enterprise edition > customers to license the various management packs that are available with > 10g at the same cost. My rationale is set out in my blog entry about this at > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/2005/07/10g-manageability.html > Please take a look and if you agree with the petition sign it. I'm grateful > for those who already have, especially if you are yourselves EE customers. > If there is a sufficient number of people that feel the same way I will be > drawing this to Oracle's attention. If there isn't I'll know that its just a > pet peeve. > > Follow-ups should be directed either at me or in the comments on my blog > entry. They don't seem appropriate in this forum. > > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l