Having worked with Oracle products for several years, their licensing policy
is essentially as follows:
Development licenses are generally free, as is indicated below with the
individual who got his *free* copy of Oracle.
However, as soon as a system moves to *PRODUCTION* status, the database must
be licensed, including add-on such as OPS (Oracle Parallel Server) etc...
If you are running a *PRODUCTION* application on your *free* development
license, you are in violation of the license agreement.
The following licensing structure covers only the core database, but this
will probably change with Oracle's introduction of 9i (which is really only
version 8.2, which is still new, repackaged with some changes in the
licensing).
NAMED USER
This is only allowed if you can *PROVE* that only those named users
will be able to connect to the database. Since this doesn't apply to Web
applications, I'll skip this section.
POWER UNIT LICENSING
This is the method required for most implementations.
RISC (such as Sun, HP, Digital, etc...)
# of CPU's X MHZ Rating X 1.5 (RISC Factor) X $100
INTEL (such as for Linux)
# of CPU's X MHZ Rating X $100
Examples:
SUN Ultra-10 with 1 433-MHZ cpu
1 X 433 X 1.5 X $100 = $64, 950
SUN 220-R with 2 433-MHZ cpu's
2 X 433 X 1.5 X $100 = $129,900
INTEL Box with 2 PIII 800-MHZ cpu's
2 X 800 X $100 = $160,000
Granted these examples are very basic, and are based on Oracle's current
*RETAIL* pricing, but this will give you the general idea, and this doesn't
include maintenance fees.
These costs may seem exorbitant, but you don't buy a Ferrari to carry you
two blocks down the street to buy groceries. Likewise, you don't take a
free bicycle to race in the Indy 500. Every cost is justified in the proper
application. MySQL is not the solution for all applications just as using
Oracle may be over-kill in some applications.
For what it is worth...
Brad L. Christensen
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.center7.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cichy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:26 AM
To: Dickson Alastair T; Christopher Bone
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mySQL IS winning
On Thursday 01 February 2001 11:43, Dickson Alastair T wrote:
> > >But you still have to buy the ORACLE software right?
>>
>> Nope. I got my Enterprise Edition Oracle8i free.
>>
>> The *support and training* is paid for (ooouch, very expensive),
>> unlike mysql (free and from "the horses mouth")
>>
>> :)
>>
>> If you have lots of memory, processing power, time etc...
>> Download 8i for Linux (Registration Reqd)at:
>> http://technet.oracle.com/software/products/oracle8i/software_index.htm
JOHN CICHY WROTE:
>I'm not sure about this but isn't this a developers version, i.e. free to
>build your application, but if you want to deploy...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>I was going to check the link you offered, but it asked for a password and
>userid.
>--
>Have a great day...
>John
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