RE: Who wants to be a millionaire - courtesy of Oracle ?

The kicker in the details of the Oracle guarantee seems to be item #6:

YOU WILL NEED TO PURCHASE THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES RECOMMENDED BY ORACLE, AND
UNDERTAKE YOUR BEST EFFORTS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR WEBSITE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR
RECOMMENDATIONS.

I don't see any constraints on the size hardware they can recommend for the
replacement system; it doesn't appear to have to be comparably sized or priced,
and you get to pay full price for whatever they recommend.

I could deliver a 3 times performance boost to quite a few AS/400-based web
sites simply by upgrading them to an eserver iseries 400e model 840 (isn't that
what we're supposed to be calling it now?) and pocket a VERY hefty profit off
the upgrade fee in the process!

I've also dealt with customers, as I'm sure many of you have, who are looking
for a silver bullet solution that doesn't require any programming changes,
because they don't want to bear the expense of changing the code or the risk of
retesting it. Here again, an upfront requirement that *ALL* recommendations must
be accepted and implemented would make life as a consultant much less
challenging...

I guess I'm just a cynic sometimes...

Janet Krueger
Andrews Consulting Group





"Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> on 10/05/2000 07:25:40 AM

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Subject:  RE: Who wants to be a millionaire - courtesy of Oracle ?




I'm sure there were a lot of *'s in the speach. hehe..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Corcoran [mailto:midrange23@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:42 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Who wants to be a millionaire - courtesy of Oracle ?
>
>
> 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' Oracle's Ellison asks
> October 3, 2000, 4:15 p.m. PT
>
> Larry Ellison is betting heavily on Oracle's e-business
> software--$1 million
> to be exact.
>
> The Oracle chief executive today hawked the company's database and
> e-commerce software, guaranteeing the products together will
> run Web sites
> three times faster than rival offerings from IBM and
> Microsoft--or he'll
> give customers $1 million.
>
> "If the performance doesn't triple, we'll give you a million
> bucks," Ellison
> said in an attempt to woo existing IBM and Microsoft
> customers. The Oracle
> leader spoke for an hour to thousands of Oracle faithful
> attending the
> software giant's annual Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
>
> full article at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2925973.html
>
> Given the amount of faith expressed in the web hosting
> capabilities of the
> (formerly known as) AS400 on this list, anyone care to take
> up Larry's
> challenge and win themselves a million ???



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