Re: How much does it cost to run Enterprise Oracle on Linux?

But there is a minimum number of Named Users.  For Enterprise Edition, that
is 25 named users per CPU.

At the end of the day, the minimum cost for "Named User" licensing is 50% of
the cost of CPU licensing.  If your user community grows, the cost for
"Named User" licensing can (and will) be much higher.  Based on $800/user,
named user licensing for an appliction exposed to the internet (the
maximumcost case) could list at around USD $4.8
trillion, although for this, Oracle Corp would have to argue that everyone
on the planet has access to the internet.  You'd need to have a lot of CPUs
(120 million) to make that worthwhile...

The minimum user counts for the Standard Editions are much more
attractive... ;-)

Actually though, with Standard Edition One (or eXpress Edition) and modest
storage requirements, the cost of the OS license can suddenly look
veryrelevant...

On 10/27/06, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

If you get cpu, licenses, that is. You can also get per-user licenses, for
much much less (something like $800 per User - but don't quote me on that
number :-)

Stefan

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