Re: Licensing costs

John,

My recollection is that you can run a 2-node RAC with Oracle Standard Edition. Does that meet your requirement?

Dennis Williams

On 2/19/08, 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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