Re: Licensing rules for Data Guard
From: Palooka <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:59 +0100
Message-ID: <8a4qk.60992$8y1.14218@newsfe18.ams2>
>
> 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!
>
Aren't you the guy who was asking about transferring a whole lot of data to Oracle a few years back? It was for some retailer or other (Londis was my guess). I recommended SQL*Loader direct path if the data was known to be clean. How did it go?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:59 +0100
Message-ID: <8a4qk.60992$8y1.14218@newsfe18.ams2>
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!
>
Aren't you the guy who was asking about transferring a whole lot of data to Oracle a few years back? It was for some retailer or other (Londis was my guess). I recommended SQL*Loader direct path if the data was known to be clean. How did it go?
Palooka Received on Sun Aug 17 2008 - 20:22:59 CDT