Well, it depends on a point of view. However, for example when using
servers from SUN the only ones that can be used with SE are the low end
ones. Everything above the lowest ranges is having a CPU capacity
higher than is SE limitation. So I think it is safe to say that
majority of environments (midrange + high end vs. just low ends) can
not be used with SE. For example just recently we have bought a small
box from SUN for mere 30k USD (really not a big deal in todays IT
prices) and even this not expensive server is not applicable for Oracle
Database Standard Edition.
I remember times not far ago when this CPU limitation was only related
to the INSTALLED CPUs, but it seems to me that Oracle is making its
licensing conditions more customer hostile each year. :-(
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Dusan Bolek
Received on Mon Apr 10 2006 - 12:26:19 CDT
