Oracle probably will now get probably 10% of the revenue back on
every deal they do. I know I have pulled the 'Well, my IT/Developers
say that we can just use mysql for free...' as a coupon for 10% off
every Oracle purchase.

I imagine those days are soon gone since Oracle has the guts and
incentive to come after you for licensing violations.

John-

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...> wrote:

> And usually prizing
> also depends on negotiating with your local Oracle reseller a lot. And
> AFAIK there even are special licenses if you want to bundle a commercial
> application with Oracle cutting down license costs again.