Stupid use of technology rant

[DimPrawn]

Fixed price deal to bring in the solution.

Oracle -> Other consultancy -> Client

Problem was with the first phase of development, which was budgeted at about £5 million and Oracle took £15 million. Meant that all that the consultancy could spend on the next bit was £300k. It was undoubtedly cheaper than that, but that's all that they offered us to build the all singing, all dancing solution to integrate web front end to messaging hub to back office and back again.

I'd do it forra fiver.

[AtW]

Problem was with the first phase of development, which was budgeted at about £5 million and Oracle took £15 million. Meant that all that the consultancy could spend on the next bit was £300k. It was undoubtedly cheaper than that, but that's all that they offered us to build the all singing, all dancing solution to integrate web front end to messaging hub to back office and back again.

Oracle is a rip off. Just like Sun.

[oracleslave]

Oracle is a rip off. Just like Sun.

Yeah, Larry should just give it away. Like SKA

[AtW]

Yeah, Larry should just give it away. Like SKA

Have you seen how they were pricing it? By power-units ffs, so if you got more powerful machine you have to pay more, wtf? It's like tax effectively.

[TheFaQQer]

Have you seen how they were pricing it? By power-units ffs, so if you got more powerful machine you have to pay more, wtf? It's like tax effectively.

Not everything is priced like that. Some products, if not all, are available on a per user basis or per concurrent user basis.

[AtW]

Not everything is priced like that. Some products, if not all, are available on a per user basis or per concurrent user basis.

Yes this is true. I would not go Oracle route however, not least because I much prefer T-SQL (good old Sybase and MS SQL), but for the kind of prices they charge I would not use Oracle at all, I'd rather save this money and put them into something useful, sorry Oracle DBAs...

[PAH]

Oracle took £15 million

No doubt it's a government project then, where they throw money down black holes like Gazza does kebabs?

15 million for a database.

You even need to use a Toad to administer it as Oracle's own tools are absolute tulipe.

[AtW]

No doubt it's a government project then, where they throw money down black holes like Gazza does kebabs?

Bazza like

[PRC1964]

Oracle is a rip off. Just like Sun.

If you ask them nicely Sun will do you some very good deals on hardware. We are in the process of getting some serious kit for not much wonga.

[AtW]

If you ask them nicely Sun will do you some very good deals on hardware. We are in the process of getting some serious kit for not much wonga.

They are desperate now for revenues.