Re: What is Oracle thinking

>Your best bet is to host it yourself using Oracle Standard
>edition for a 2 year term at $5.25 per Mhz.

Note that Oracle has a "soak-the-rich" pricing scheme. Enterprise Edition costs a *lot* more than standard edition. You'd spend $2600 for a 2-year Standard Edition license on a 500 Mhz Pentium III runs $2600 versus $15K for EE ($35 /Mhz).

Oracle's pricing model assures that the highly-capitalized ebusinesses  that require 24X7 uptime and advanced replication pay through-the-nose for it.

They also seem to jig-around with their pricing model a *lot*. Apparently they've dropped the Sun-penalty (where Sparc Mhz cost 1.5 * Intel Mhz).

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