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But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
by dragandj 8y ago
But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course. Right. What distinguishes Amazon's offering is that it has that kind of backing at zero cost. With Oracle, you can have zero cost, or “production-ready” backing, but not both together.
- coldtea 8y agoWell, we want that for free, of course.
- tyingq 8y agoOr for less than $25 per core, per month. Or clarity on what to do for a 1 VCPU license (1/2 a core). Or how to pay for licenses on ephemeral elastic servers.
- Arnt 8y agoOracle's offering involves paying Oracle money and getting regular phone calls from the Oracle sales department, which I have heard described in colourful ways.
- arethuza 8y agoOracle has/had "value based pricing" for larger contracts The discussion goes something like this: Customer: "How much does this cost?" Oracle sales: "How much money do you have?" Now this isn't quite as bad as it sounds (charge based on the value that the new system will bring) but the conversation was definitely a bit uncomfortable..... Oracle was not selected as the vendor. Edit: SAP weren't selected either for different reasons: SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this" Customer: "We see why you might think that but we don't manufacture things" SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this" Customer: Next... Obviously, there was more to both conversations - but these are reasonable summaries based upon my dubious memories.
- richardwhiuk 8y agoThat's how B2B sales work - the salesman works on how much the customer is willing to pay, then discounts the product down to the point the customer will pay, and the checks that isn't below cost of goods.