Submitted by Chris_c (not verified) on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 10:50.
standard edition is available for rac up to four sockets so you can get away with that up to a point if you don't need the enterprise edition stuff. one alternatrive is if you have a small user base you can use named user licencing for 200 users (minuimum on 8 processors) you get $234,240, processor licencing is cheaper after you get to 50 users per processor (as defined by oracles wierd scalling). of course this is no use if your application is web based and you are goign to have thousands of users or be unable to count them.
Don't forget you also need to licence your development and test databases the OTN licence doesn't extend as far as some people seem to think, and if your serious then your going to want a grid control server (OK thats free as far as the software but what about the magment packs?) and a recovery catalogue is nice to have.
in the words of our last financial controller 'You mean oracle has a licencing division? I thought they just turned you upsidedown and shook you until all the money fell out'.
other options.
standard edition is available for rac up to four sockets so you can get away with that up to a point if you don't need the enterprise edition stuff. one alternatrive is if you have a small user base you can use named user licencing for 200 users (minuimum on 8 processors) you get $234,240, processor licencing is cheaper after you get to 50 users per processor (as defined by oracles wierd scalling). of course this is no use if your application is web based and you are goign to have thousands of users or be unable to count them.
Don't forget you also need to licence your development and test databases the OTN licence doesn't extend as far as some people seem to think, and if your serious then your going to want a grid control server (OK thats free as far as the software but what about the magment packs?) and a recovery catalogue is nice to have.
in the words of our last financial controller 'You mean oracle has a licencing division? I thought they just turned you upsidedown and shook you until all the money fell out'.