Standard Edition (SE) will do the good,
old standby database thing quite well, but without the bells-and-whistles that
became available in v8.1.x (i.e. automated log shipping, log shipping over
SQL*Net, automated log apply, up to 5 archive destinatios, etc). You'll
essentially be running in v7.3.x mode (which I'm personally happy to do, because
it allows me to use some good, old tried-and-true scripts). For a while in
the 8.1.5 timeframe, there was even a bug whereby the *primary* database
instance could be crashed by an ORA-00600 occuring on the *standby* database
instance (!!!), so those good, old standby databases operating in v7.3 mode on
v8.1 software looked pretty danged smart...
Very often, Oracle will allow the second node in a
standby arrangement to be licensed using "named-user" licensing, so you only pay
the US$15K/processor for the "primary" server and then pay the 5-named-user
minimum (25-named-user minimum for EE) on the "standby" server
(something like US$2-3K total for SE, something like US$12-15K total for EE, I
think -- can't say for certain because the unbreakable OracleStore is down at
the moment). Of course, you can't even license SE on a box with more than
four processors...
You can run a wide variety of applications on
SE; I've seen PeopleSoft run happily in production on it, no quibbles
whatsoever...
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