Re: oracle costs

Jack,

This is messy territory and the house has the advantage. My advice is, don't try to do this on your own. If you are not working through a partner that specializes in Oracle licensing, start there.

Seth

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 6:19 PM jh3dt68_at_yahoo.com <dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Where I work we have Oracle EE running on 4 physical Dell servers, all
> running Oracle 12.2 and RHEL 7. The environments are PROD, DR, TEST and
> DEV. At present all of the servers have 4 sockets with 12 cores per socket,
> for a total of 96 CPU cores of Oracle EE . Unfortunately, due to budget
> cuts, management is asking us to reduce our annual Oracle maintenance
> costs, either that or we have to lay off a couple of developers, there are
> 15 people total in our shop. Our first thought was to combine DEV and TEST
> as both of those environments are not fully utilized. That would reduce our
> core count by 1/4. But digging into the contracts and the world of Oracle
> licensing (ugh), it looks like Oracle could re-calculate the maintenance
> costs based on the current list price of annual support, not on the
> discount price we received when buying Oracle 4 years ago. That means we
> wouldn't pay more but maintenance costs might not be any less. The other
> idea we had, was to convert the CPU licenses to Named User Plus licenses
> for DEV/TEST. There are only 15 people who ever use the DEV/TEST
> environments and we would leave PROD/DR alone for now. I understand there
> are processor minimums which must be accounted for, but if we combine the
> DEV/TEST and switched to NUPs I'm hoping it would result in some cost
> reduction, even if Oracle tries to claw back some of the savings.
>
> Any insights or suggestions are greatly appreciated,
>
> - Jack H.
>

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