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Last Updated: Feb 07, 2005 
The battle for customer retention and acquisition is heating up for Oracle, on both the database and the applications sides. See how the competition is affecting your pricing.
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Chip advances blowing up software price assumptions

(04 Feb 2005)

With the advent of multi-core processors, software companies like Microsoft and Oracle are lining up on opposite sides of the pricing fence. And that means upgrading hardware can have a direct affect on software costs for many enterprise customers.

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>> Chip advances blowing up software price assumptions (SearchWinSystems.com) 31 Jan 2005
>> Users benefit from SAP, Oracle battle (SearchSAP.com) 20 Jan 2005
>> Oracle 10g ships with new price tag (SearchOracle.com) 03 Feb 2004
>> Oracle forever alters the enterprise application landscape (Bitpipe Analyst Views) 21 Dec 2004
>> Report: Oracle pricing won't lure SQL Server users (SearchOracle.com) 17 Feb 2004
>> Analysts: Per-processor pricing to die out (SearchOracle.com) 16 Sep 2003
>> IBM battles Oracle for top open source customers (SearchOracle.com) 13 May 2004
>> Oracle Report Card: Oracle still too pricey (SearchDatabase.com) 16 Sep 2002
>> Oracle, SAP prep for possible price war (Reuters) 29 Apr 2004
>> How to negotiate with a software behemoth (eWEEK) 21 Dec 2004
>> Price of enterprise software plummeting (Line56.com) 23 Dec 2004

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