Re: Oracle licence question

From: Tony Rogerson <tonyrogerson_at_sqlserverfaq.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:17:51 -0000
Message-ID: <dtrrnd$f4n$1$830fa7b3@news.demon.co.uk>

> Yeah it starts at $149.00. Really silly.

Per user, minimum 5 users, so that will be $745 please sir....

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11365&media=os_user_minimums ** Oracle Standard Edition One may only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 processor cores.

Oh dear, so I cannot use a Dual AMD with 2 x physical dual-core processors (4 cores in Oracle speak).

<Really silly>
EXACTLY!
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"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message 
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> Tony Rogerson wrote:

>

>> Oracle price but for a 2 proc machine (dual core for instance) it starts 

>> to get silly.

>

> Yeah it starts at $149.00. Really silly.

>

> And the worst part is you don't get the vulnerability to every virus,

> trojan, and worm on the marketplace. Those using Oracle feel chated.

> -- 

> Daniel A. Morgan

> http://www.psoug.org

> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu

> (replace x with u to respond)

Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 03:17:51 CST