Re: oracle EE pricing

  • From: Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: vit.spinka@xxxxxxxxxxxx, barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:09:23 -0800 (PST)

Sigh...as much as I love Oracle, I won't lie, our new web based system is 
moving off of Oracle and onto MySQL.  We are going to use load balancing and 
simply spread out the load from our current Oracle environment to four or more, 
(as needed with growth) MySQL databases that don't have the licensing costs 
that our Oracle system has.  
 
We use SQL Server whenever an out-of-the-box solution presents itself for the 
same reasons.  
 
Oracle was also not happy with me at my previous contract when I presented cost 
savings for a municipal government by showing them there was no reason for EE 
on all but one of their Oracle databases.  We used that for leverage to freeze 
pricing for another year and was told by them that they will undoubtedly be 
moving all the databases to SE in the next couple months now that renewal time 
is here to make that pricing change happen.
 
Oracle needs to learn the old customer service saying-  "Getting all you can 
from a customer's pocket once is not getting a customer for life..."

Kellyn Pedersen
Multi-Platform DBA
I-Behavior Inc.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen
www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com
 
"Go away before I replace you with a very small and efficient shell script..."

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Barbara Baker <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Barbara Baker <barb.baker@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: oracle EE pricing
To: vit.spinka@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:57 AM


OK to spec SE for new projects, but what about those of us with declining 
revenues?  We would love to downgrade our licenses from EE to SE, and keep 
oracle,  but oracle will have none of it.  We are asked to shelve all of our EE 
licenses and buy new SE licenses.  All of that money for our EE licenses in the 
trash can.

At that juncture, Postgre/MySQL or even SQL Server start looking mighty 
attractive.




On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:55 AM, vit.spinka <vit.spinka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 


I think the Standard Edition is underrated, and could save the day quite often. 
It's just that most of us are used to EE and don't even think about SE when 
thinking about new projects... True, you get RAC, you loose all the packs, 
partitioning...
But quite often you can get around those limitations, there is even a product 
emulating DataGuard for SE (after all, SE has all the recovery stuff too, it's 
just missing the automation).

Vit

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