bucy wrote:

Why don't they just go back to the good old Xerox solution to this: bolt a counter on the side of your server that ticks up the number of queries processed and you pay by the query. Even better: why not just make your server coin-op -- your ops people would have a huge bucket of quarters that they'd feed into it all day long!

No, let's bring them into the present. Make the database software free. However, the responses from each transaction will be passed through an engine that will provide context-relevant advertising alongside the result of your query. USER="bucy"? Well, we know a thing or two about his habits! You queried for his zipcode, so we thought he might want to know about a BIKE SALE going on in HIS neighborhood!

RE: Oracle revamps its software pricing