Steve,
I have heard nothing to suggest that Oracle is abandoning the standard vs.
enterprise edition packaging. What I have heard and read at Oracle.com is that
they are abandoning the Universal Power Unit in favor of Per Processor pricing.
Namely there is today two license models that they offer and support, named user
and per processor. For named user you have to be able to specify the users who
will be using the database, sometimes referred to as Concurrent Devices. For
Per Processor I think there is more than meets the eye, but basically you pay
them $X for each processor you have in the box. The number I've heard bandied
about is $40K per processor, but I don't think that applies to all platforms
equally. I've also been told by the sales gerbils that if you're using software
that divies up the processors to particular tasks they will make allowances. By
that I mean that if you have the appropriate software to assure Oracle that no
more than 2 out of 8 processors in your <OEM> box will be used for Oracle then
they'll consider it a 2 processor box. At any rate, I'm happier. That UPU
thing caused a lot of consternation around here. Our Oracle licenses were
turning out to be twice the cost, or more, of the computers we were hoping to
get. Now at least in our case that's been cut in half.
Thanks Larry!! Knew you'd smell the roses/coffee sooner or later.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Vicor Corporation
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Author: "Orr; Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7/9/2001 3:36 PM
Anyone familiar with Oracle9i Licensing... is there still a standard edition
versus an enterprise edition? At OpenWorld LEllison said there would only be
two types of licenses for Oracle... the database server and the application
server. If that's the case is there nolonger a standard vs enterprise
license?
On a related note, our sales rep said that 80% of Oracle's customer base is
on standard edition and only 20% is on enterprise edition. A lot less
enterprise licenses than I would have thought. I believe the recent
"decrease" in license fees is only true for enterprise edition but actually
could amount to a price increase for standard edition if you were using
power units.
Feeling like a second class citizen... stuck with standard edition and in
need of transportable tablespaces, bitmapped indexes, function-based
indexes, and PQO...
Steve Orr
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