Re: Oracle Pricing is kind of lame

I agree. Oracle would eliminate SQL Server competition if they only had reasonable pricing. Oracle makes it very difficult for small businesses to afford their products. I think the per Mhz is absolutely ridiculous when there is no way in hell the database will use the processor to capacity with the other non-Oracle processes running.

By comparison, SQL Server is only $3,000 per processor regardless of Mhz. It's a crappy database but some of us have no choice.

The other alternative is to license the Oracle Standard edition for $15 per Mhz if you don't need the advanced features of the Enterprise Edition.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:39:42 GMT, kevinator_ca_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>hello ora-people,
> I've been working with oracle for about a 2 years now. In the past,
>I've worked on large government contracts that had the funding to pay
>Oracle's outrageous licensing fees. Now I work for a smaller company
>and I was shocked when I learned how much oracle wants to extort from
>us.
> If you've looked the web page at http://oraclestore.oracle.com, you
>notice that Oracle recently started charging based on "Power Units."
>So, as an example, our licence would cost $165K. We have 3 Zeon 550 Mhz
>processors and that's what it worked out to. Plus we have to pay a $20K
>or 15% in support. BTW : It took my boss 3 hour long phone calls just
>to get a replacement disk for the server.
> i just wanted to know if my boss and I are the only ones who think
>this outrageous. We wanted to switch most of our MS SQL-Server stuff to
>Oracle but we probably won't because of the cost issue. One of our
>clients insists that we use Oracle so we will still be using it but not
>as much as I thought.
> I hope it's reasonable to bring this issue up in this newsgroup.
>
>kevin
>
>
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>Before you buy.
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CST