Re: Licensing costs

There's a company that specializes in helping companies reduce Oracle license costs. They can get paid an up front fee or a percentage of the savings etc. I met them at 2006 OOW, but they've changed name since then and I can't remember their name for the life of me.

Finn

On 2/19/08, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Did you consider SE for this. I've just gone to the Oracle store (and
> found it moved and is on apps 12!)
>
> dual node rac install on SE = £33k.
> dual node rac install on EE = £119k.
>
> Neither of these quotes have any discount. If you can live without EE and
> don't mind paying 25% of the price this might work for you. To be honest
> given that you could be running SE on quad-core chips for the same price EE
> takes an awful lot of selling to me for most applications these days.
>
> Niall
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, John Thompson <jhthomp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To get an idea of how much it would cost to license a point of sale
> > database on Oracle and commodity hardware/software, we requested a quote for
> > a 2-node RAC on Dell 2950's 2 Dual core's per server. Quote was $306k.
> > Business choked and said to look for an alternative solution. It's hard to
> > argue with them with costs like that. We're currently having to house about
> > 30 db's on each of the 3 production servers we have because of the licensing
> > costs. Tunning, planning downtime is a true nightmare not to mention we
> > cannot gurantee SLA's are met because of the influences of these other
> > databases. I'd like to silo each database, but that's out of the question
> > with that kind of cost. How are others dealing with the high cost of
> > Oracle?
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info

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