RE: Oracle out the door

I believe RAC is included with SE in 10g+, at least according to page 3 of this doc
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf:  

"Effective with the release of 10g, the Oracle Database Standard Edition product includes the Real Applications Clusters database option."  

Extra maintenance costs are a different story - I've never run RAC so can't comment on that.  

Regards,
Brandon

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider  

  I can't imagine that you need to be paying those extra tens of thousands of dollars for RAC; won't the extra licensing and maintenance costs of RAC come out about the same as those three servers your eliminating?

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