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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostNope - banking.
It was an integration hub, plus CRM front-end, plus separate back-end system on Oracle.
Incredibly extendable and flexible, and cheap at half the price.
SQL Developer (AKA Project Raptor) does everything that TOAD does, for free.
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Originally posted by PAH View PostNo 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.
It was an integration hub, plus CRM front-end, plus separate back-end system on Oracle.
Incredibly extendable and flexible, and cheap at half the price.
SQL Developer (AKA Project Raptor) does everything that TOAD does, for free.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostNot everything is priced like that. Some products, if not all, are available on a per user basis or per concurrent user basis.
PS AtW, I know you wouldn't use Siebel.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostOracle took £15 million
15 million for a database.
You even need to use a Toad to administer it as Oracle's own tools are absolute tulipe.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostNot everything is priced like that. Some products, if not all, are available on a per user basis or per concurrent user basis.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostHave 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.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostOracle is a rip off. Just like Sun.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostProblem 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.
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