Re: Licensing costs

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?
>

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