Re: Oracle Licences answer written in english

Daniel if you could that would be great i need these costs for a business plan, if you get them to drop me a line at this addi steve_at_donsolaris.com I would be most grateful.

Steve

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3DE2BF14.99763DB6_at_exesolutions.com...
> Monica Wright wrote:
>
> > Hey Daniel, I was told that the Standard edition of Oarcle wouldnt hack
30
> > users, running 9ias 9ir2 and the collaboration pack, which i would have
> > thought for a duel xeon system with 2gb ram would have been more than
happy.
> > Im licencing by user because athought the server will be doing allot,
> > running a web interface, running email, running a case management system
and
> > indexing documents theres only 30 users max, so i dont think i need EE
at
> > all.
> >
> > Yr thoughts?
> >
> > Yes she was a Oracle employee, wish i could remember her damn name
> >
> > Basically my system, will be running a small firm of 30 users, with a
nice
> > web interface it will be doing some case management, and storing some
> > documents as text and as pdf files which will be indexed. There will
also
> > be some jpeg and tiff file stored on there. It will be doing some email
and
> > sending incremental backsups to anotehr db via dsl. There will be many
Gb
> > of data after a little while but like i have said not many users. I was
> > told Oracle9i was not up to the job, and i would have to buy EE even
though
> > it had 100 users minimum.
>
> A quick primer.
>
> You can license in multiple ways some of which are based on CPU rather
than by
> user. The person you spoke with seems reasonably clueless and should not
be
> talked with again.
>
> With respect to the number of users you can connect to Oracle Standard
Edition
> the number is certainly in the tens of thousands, perhaps more. The
differences
> between the editions relate to features such as function based indexes and
> partitioning ... it has nothing to do with hardware requirements or
whatever
> stuff you have mentioned.
>
> If you have still having problems let me know and I'll refer you to
someone at
> Oracle that understands what they are selling.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 18:38:29 CST