Re: Licensing rules for Data Guard
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:10:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1219065028.305679@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
>
> The cost of Oracle Enterprise is £24k per core. So a 4 quad-core cpu
> server is 16x24 = £384k. You get to multiply the cores by a "fudge
> factor" of 0.75, which gives £288k.
> Standard Edition is £8.5k per cpu, so £34k total.
> So I don't know where the £150k differential came from either. It's
> much higher!
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:10:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1219065028.305679@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
Neil Truby wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Licensing rules for Data Guard
>
>
>> 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.
>
> The cost of Oracle Enterprise is £24k per core. So a 4 quad-core cpu
> server is 16x24 = £384k. You get to multiply the cores by a "fudge
> factor" of 0.75, which gives £288k.
> Standard Edition is £8.5k per cpu, so £34k total.
> So I don't know where the £150k differential came from either. It's
> much higher!
£24k per core is the list price:
http://oraclestore.oracle.com/OA_HTML/ibeCZzpHome.jsp?minisite=10061&respid=1298373&grp=STORE&language=US
I can't think of a single customer of mine that has ever paid that price.
-- 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 Mon Aug 18 2008 - 08:10:36 CDT