Hello,

I was working as a trainer(contractor) for Oracle University Turkey
and for their education partners. One of their partners tried to force
me about a training that OUT(Oracle University Turkey) will not know
anything about the education(with photocopy books).

I did not accept it and informed OUT about this situation. But they
did nothing about their partner and reduced the number of my Oracle
educations. So i gave up working with Oracle and finished our
partnership.

I founded my own education company, with a small class. I agreed with
Sideris courseware to use their Oracle coursewares for my educations.
I asked OUT for an Oracle database education license to use in my
class. But they told me that I could only buy a license per user, ie.
for every student in my class. And i should renew my license for every
education, for every student. This was an unacceptable and unpayable
license of course. So i decided to use Oracle Database Express Edition
for my educations.

But last week, OUT sent me a warning that i can not use Oracle XE for
my educations. They threatened me that if wouldn't stop my educations,
they will bring a suit against my company.

Don't i have any chance to organize Oracle database educations
independent from Oracle? I am thinking about bringing a suit against
OUT that they prevent us from the competition.

May you please help me with your experience? Do every education
company have to get permission from Oracle for Oracle educations,
either if the company do not use Oracle coursewares. Isn't there any
chance for competition?

Thanks for your answers and have a nice year.

Bora YURET
HedefBilgi Bilisim Akademisi
Ankara, TURKEY