Re: Use the existing RAC. . . or build another one?

List price for EE, last time I checked, was about $50,000 per "processor". 8 Intel cores are 4 "processors", so that's about $200,000 for the desktop PC with a single I7 processor.

And no "extras", like RAC, Diagnostics/Tuning Pack, Partitioning, ...

You don't have to work hard to come to a list price close to a half-million-dollars to run Oracle on a desktop PC.

This is why I have -- for years -- been counseling customers who are agonizing over the cost of hardware for their Oracle deployments to stop worrying and treat the hardware as "free". Once you have paid for the database licenses, it might as well be. In fact, I rather suspect that it would take little negotiation on anybody's part to get an Oracle sales rep to throw in Intel-based hardware FREE OF CHARGE if you agree to pay list price for the database licenses. ;-)

What really horrifies me these days is the growing price gulf between EE and SE. On 18-core Intel processors, EE costs almost 100x as much as SE-One. That is a price difference that is becoming difficult to justify.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Mladen Gogala <dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org> wrote:

> On 04/17/2015 01:47 PM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Mladen Gogala<mgogala_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >That amounts to a desktop PC which can
>>> >be bought for $1K these days. No humor here.
>>>
>> yeah you're right, that really isn't funny; it's more like sad.
>>
> Does anyone remember the times when hardware was more expensive than
> software? The purpose of the multi-tenancy option is to save hardware
> resources like CPU, RAM and disk. The price of those hardware resources is
> much, much lower than the price of multi-tenancy option itself. Let me
> demonstrate:
>
> The price of a PC with Intel I7 CPU, 32GB of RAM, low end graphic card and
> two 2TB disks is around $1.5k. Intel I7 is an 8-core CPU. The price of
> Oracle EE (CPU license) for that PC is $80k. If I run two instances of
> Oracle on that PC, I will likely use 2GB RAM and 1 core on overhead alone.
> PDB option can save me from such wasting of resources - for $80k. If we
> take the more expensive large Dell pc with 4 CPU sockets and 512GB RAM, the
> price is higher, about $7k Multi-tenancy option, assuming CPU license, will
> be for 32 cores. List price says that it will cost $320k. And it will save
> me resources on $7k PC. You are right. It's sad.
>
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