Re: oracle EE pricing

From: John Thompson <jhthomp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:14:53 -0600
Message-ID: <11d63ad11001191214vb1695b8u41fe72153702128a_at_mail.gmail.com>

We faced the same issues and instead of purchasing more licenses, we moved all of our Oracle database to Linux on commodity hardware. The architecture involves ASM, CRS (without RAC) which gives us HA. We got an immediate performance improvement with ASM and simply moving to a hardware platform with faster processors (Sun 4150's) vs. Sun 2900's. The price diff between the 4150 running Linux and the 2900 running Solaris was huge so we saved there also. After moving all of our databases off Solaris and the 2900's we ended up having fewer CPU's to license which allowed us to use the leftovers for growth.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Johnson, William L (TEIS) < WLJohnson_at_tycoelectronics.com> wrote:

> Read all of the terms and conditions surrounding licensing before you buy.
> Much of their documentation is available on the internet. You can not
> eliminate any licenses once you buy them from Oracle - and if you do, they
> re-price support on all remaining licenses to make sure their revenue stream
> stays the same at a minimum year-over-year. I would make sure you read more
> information surrounding the contract before you plan to do something like
> this...
>
> Bill
>
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> On Behalf Of Veres Lajos
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:41 AM
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> Subject: oracle EE pricing
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> Hi,
>
> I dont understand something about pricing.
> This page says:
>
> https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:product:86489432026629::NO:RP,3:P3_LPI,P3_PROD_HIER_ID:4509382199341805719938,4509958287721805720011
>
> Perpetual license/cpu: 47,500$, plus yearly support: 10,450$
> 1 year license/cpu: 9,500$
>
> It looks like to me it is cheaper to re-buy a yearly license in every
> year, than the yearly support cost of a perpetual license. (And there is
> lot more difference in the first year...)
>
> I guess I am missing something, but I cant find it.
>
> Can you enlighten me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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