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Syltrem wrote:
> From what Oracle told us, it would cost about 100,000$ to setup a standby
> database (Enterprise Edition) on a 4 CPU box.
> Considering this would be at a remote site, and the machine would only ever
> be used in case of disaster recovery (that is, no connected users ever
> unless the primary datacenter is blacked out), we find it's not cheap.
Find a different Oracle rep. Standby databases are free unless they are made active for, IIRC, 9 days. Here's the proof:
and I quote:
"System: shall be defined as each distinct production database. Test,
development, failover and standby databases are not required to be
licensed as systems; however, you may run the program on these databases."
It is Q4 and unless there is something you haven't said, or I am misunderstanding something someone is being rather unethical and you should say something to his management.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Mon May 02 2005 - 13:44:18 CDT