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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (468368)	10/1/2003 4:05:45 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

what I mean is that out of the number of new licenses sold for oracle users, these used to be referred to as "seat licenses", a huge percentage of them now reside in India. In the early 90s enterprise software companies used to use "site licenses" which granted complete access to all the tools to everybody in the company. This approach ended up "giving away the farm" so to speak, and they changed to a "seat license" model. Now that India is the "back office for the world"- a situation that Oracle had a hand in creating, how much $$ does oracle get for a seat license in india, compared to what they used to make when their user base was primarily here? Those details are hard to get. I don't think shifting the market offshore is what Larry had in mind when he lobbied Congress for all those H1-Bs and L1s.