Re: DB12c in Production?

From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 07:04:09 -0500
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Is the extra cost option for using PDBs at all or is it for having more than one PDB?

-Jeremy

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> On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:20 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Three things come to mind
>> 
>> 1) The non-multi-tenant architecture is known as the 'Pre-12c' architecture.  In other words, in the future, we will have no choice.


> 

> I agree that the wording and marketing tends to point in that direction. However I consider it unlikely that the old architecture will disappear any time soon for one major reason. Multi-tenant has been introduced as an extra cost option, and its an option I think a reasonable number of customers, but by no means all will pay for. A future decision for Oracle to drop support for the option would have to do one or more of the below (or some other smart alternative). 

> 

> make multi-tenant part of the base license killing a revenue stream. 

> make existing customers who don't see value in multi-tenant pay for it (reducing a revenue stream). 

> make it cost neutral or advantageous to move to multi-tenant (perhaps by playing with overall discount rates for those who purchase it)  

> allow multi-tenant for SE customers

> I suspect that any of the above will be difficult and have unexpected side effects. 

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