Re: How do you think about Oracle's EC2/S3?

From: Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:23:36 +0100
Message-ID: <BANLkTimukC2_VVrV+Op6fSda7HQktJF05g_at_mail.gmail.com>

You are joking right? Of course you have to pay for software licenses.

If you wait for the new combined Oracle/Amazon offering you can pay a per-hour charge that includes both the Amazon EC2 cost and the Oracle licensing costs.

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/

This means you will be able to pay-as-you-use with Oracle for the first time, but I expect it will still work in favor of Oracle as far as costs are concerned if you were to run an instance for a whole year.

With all Amazon EC2 stuff you are responsible for being licensed properly. You can either use your own licenses, or pay the price that incorporates the license cost. either way you are not getting OS or database software for free. If you are not licensed properly you are breaking the law just like any other situation.

Cheers

Tim...

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Leyi Zhang (Kamus) <kamusis_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi lists
>
> I'm personally using Amazon EC2/S3 for testing, and I know Dropbox is
> totally depend on Amazon S3, and Quora also use EC2 and S3 heavily.
>
> So what do you guys think if Oracle can release a product/service
> based on their Elastic Cloud Platform (for example Exalogic+Exadata) ?
> If using this service, we customer will not need to pay for software
> license anymore, just like how we using Amazon EC2/S3, we only need to
> pay for the CPU/Mem/Storage we actually used.
> Do you guys think this is an win-win idea for the Entry level/Midrange
> enterprise customer and Oracle?
>
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