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Meta says customers who aggregate feeds to and from data warehouses on Oracle databases are now being asked to pay more. The issue arises, according to Meta, because batch jobs to the database are now being considered by Oracle as several, rather than one request. Oracle supports multiplexing, or pooling data through a proxy, from several sources into one request. Oracle now wants to regard this as many requests, rather than one request.
Shainman says this could result in a fivefold increase for some users. He says users should go to court to defend existing license arrangements.
Oracle says it's being entirely consistent, and characterizes the Meta bulletin as a "misunderstanding".
Readers with first hand experience of the new multiplexing license arrangement should get in touch. We'd like to hear from you.
The Mobility Group has been unable to make significant headway against major rivals Palm, in the handheld market, and Nokia, in the cell phone market, according to analysts. Microsoft remains behind both companies in market share and is making targeted efforts to supplant them.
Analysts had been predicting that Microsoft would be able to make major gains in market share against both companies but that has failed to happen at this point. Sales of Pocket PC devices, which come from Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard, among others, have actually grown faster than sales of Palm devices, in terms of percentage, but Palm-based products still account for the lion's share of the market.
Personal leave, like the one Waldman is taking, can last up to a year. He is expected to return to Microsoft. A Microsoft representative said that this differs from a sabbatical, which usually lasts a few months, but generally executives who leave on sabbatical don't return to Microsoft.
Shields will report to Pieter Knook, who is vice president of mobile devices and network service providers at Microsoft. Vice President of Marketing Juha Christensen, who came to Microsoft from Symbian, remains with the Mobility Group and continues to report directly to Ballmer.
Former Mobility Director Phil Holden is now a director with the MSN group, and former Mobility General Manager Rogers Weed is now a vice president in the PC Experience group.