From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net
In article <1075dda$qq7j$2@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>On 8/8/2025 1:42 PM, bill wrote:
>> On 8/8/2025 11:05 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> You would think that Oracle would have details of customers who have
>>> bought RDB licenses in the past
>>
>> But then, you also might think that Oracle would just much like
>> to see them all go away so they could stop spending resources on
>> something that is not a profit maker.
>
>I am rather confident that Rdb is making a profit. The list
>price of Rdb is pretty high and even with a solid discount
>to good customers, then Oracle should be able to make
>a profit.
Define "profit". If Oracle feels that the engineering resources
being devoted to Rdb would make more money if devoted to
something else, then they may take that delta into account when
calculating profits. So even if they felt like the total
engineering cost were strictly less than total generated
revenue, they may view it as a loss due to missed revenue
opportunity.
>The problem is that it is a very small area within a very
>big company.
Just so.
>Oracle DB, Oracle ERP & CRM (whatever its current name is),
>Oracle cloud etc. are huge business areas making tens
>of billions in revenue and billions in profit.
>
>So if Rdb talk about growing revenue by 10 M$ and Oracle cloud talk
>about growing revenue by 10 B$, then senior management will not
>spend many seconds on Rdb.
USD $10M is not a lot of money when amortized over the amount of
time required to bring Rdb for x86_64 to market. How many
people are working on this thing? How many will be required for
maintenance? How long do they project those revenue numbers to
hold? If the resources used to generate that $10M were put to
use on something that could generate $100M instead, how do you
account for the loss?
- Dan C.
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