Joe Smith wrote:
>
> The "need" for Oracle components or its DBMS  on the HP3000 should be viewed by
> HP as an opportunity to sell hardware, and to further expose the e3000 to an
> enormous market.   Oracle performs so well in the HP3000 environment that HP has
> a solid winner when choosing platforms, if they would dare to promote this.
>

Remember, Oracle won't let you make claims about performance or do
benchmarking to compare platforms.  However, HP could promote using the
satisfied customer approach.

If Oracle server were priced per user independent of the MPE user license,
like I believe it is on every other Oracle platform, it would probably
help it's sales on MPE a lot, too!

Richard
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