Re: Oracle alternatives

Hi Dick
> Also we had Oracle in here just a week
> ago & they did say, very clearly, that Standard Edition One is
> restricted to 2 cpu's and user based licensing.

Well that is just wrong. You can pay a per processor license for Oracle SE One. Its right there on store.oracle.com. What do you get for a processor license. The public, passed through Oracle legal statement is

"Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a Processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users"

SE One *is* limited to 2 processors, but any number of folks can access it internal, or third party. The effective limit is how many concurrent sessions it takes to kill a 2 processor box (somewhere between 4 and 500 usually).

Now I know about Oracle sales folk on site. they told us onsite, and indeed in email, that EM10g did not take any functionality that we already had away from us, or make us pay more for it. Now I've presented the evidence there has been a deafening silence.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

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