Re: Oracle Pricing Query

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Jan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can someone give me some info on the cost of Oracle's products currently? I
> ma fihnding it difficult ot get somep rices and, having been on the site, I
> am a bit ocnfused by the model they use so:

That is why Oracle has sales people.

>
>
> Can someone....
>
> 1) What, on average, is the software cost of the 8i and 9i Oracle suites? By
> this, I mean to simply buy the software? or does Oracle have a more
> convuluted model in place?

There are at least three different methods by which Oracle prices its software ... probably more. And they are not convoluted. They are intended to allow the customization of what you spend to how you will employ the software.

> 2) I notice there is a user and/or CPU licencing info on the Oracle site -
> can someone point me to a good resource on Oracle licencing or perhaps a
> quick overview here?

Oracle Corp. Pick up the telephone and call them. You can not get accurate pricing on the web.

> I cannot appear to find any info on a site licence but simply a cost on a
> per user connection? Is this how it works with Oracle so, in the case of a
> 10,000 company, you have ot buy 10,000 licences.
>
> Sorry if this sounds naive,
>
> Jan.

Oracle assumes that people will wish to negotiate pricing and support services to cover an enterprise. An enterprise that may well consist of multiple development, testing, and production servers on multiple operating systems and hardware platforms such as NT, Win2000, Solaris, HP/UX, VM, etc. And may want differing levels of support for different parts of their organization.

First you need to know exactly what you need in the way of users and hardware. Then you need to sit down with someone from sales and negotiate the price and level of service.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 23:45:15 CDT