Licensing costs
From: John Thompson <jhthomp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:58:01 -0600
Message-ID: <11d63ad10802190558v45165947q83e1b431d40205c8@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:58:01 -0600
Message-ID: <11d63ad10802190558v45165947q83e1b431d40205c8@mail.gmail.com>
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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