Re: Licensing rules for Data Guard
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:42:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1219016562.324424@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
>
> Thanks. The differential in price was about £150k. The lady from
> Oracle was interested in some incentive for going Enterprise, but
> nothing like that much. You get hit with a double whammy anyway:
> Enterprise is more expensive than Standard, but you also have to licence
> per core rather than socket. It could be a triple whammy, as no-one I
> spoke to seemed very sure if you have to licence the replicate or not.
>
> We were able to set up SAN replication to do the job for about £30k for
> the software. It's not quite as elegant or instant as I imagine Data
> Guard would be, which is why I was interested in trying it for comparison.
>
> As you know, Daniel, I come from an IBM database background: it seems
> like IBM might (amazingly!) have a more enlightened view to Feature
> pricing than Oracle, in this respect at least!
>
> rgds
> N
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:42:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1219016562.324424@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
Neil Truby wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1219005304.381896_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
>
>> Keep in mind the difference in price between SE and EE is entirely >> dependent upon your ability to negotiate with your Oracle sales rep. >> Oracle has list prices (http://store.oracle.com) but those are merely >> the beginning point for negotiations.
>
> Thanks. The differential in price was about £150k. The lady from
> Oracle was interested in some incentive for going Enterprise, but
> nothing like that much. You get hit with a double whammy anyway:
> Enterprise is more expensive than Standard, but you also have to licence
> per core rather than socket. It could be a triple whammy, as no-one I
> spoke to seemed very sure if you have to licence the replicate or not.
>
> We were able to set up SAN replication to do the job for about £30k for
> the software. It's not quite as elegant or instant as I imagine Data
> Guard would be, which is why I was interested in trying it for comparison.
>
> As you know, Daniel, I come from an IBM database background: it seems
> like IBM might (amazingly!) have a more enlightened view to Feature
> pricing than Oracle, in this respect at least!
>
> rgds
> N
I don't know where the £150k price came from but here's a reality check for her. In the US there are plenty of Oracle customers buying for $20-25K per CPU and I don't know of anyone paying per core.
On IBM's zSeries architecture where 1 IFL = 30 x86 cores licensing is by IFL.
-- Daniel A. Morgan Oracle Ace Director & Instructor University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Sun Aug 17 2008 - 18:42:50 CDT