The license is included. The hardware and training are not. :-) On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe RAC is included with SE in 10g+, at least according to page 3 > of this doc http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf: > > "Effective with the release of 10g, the Oracle Database Standard Edition > product includes the Real Applications Clusters database option." > > Extra maintenance costs are a different story - I've never run RAC so > can't comment on that. > > Regards, > Brandon > > ------------------------------ > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Schneider > > I can't imagine that you need to be paying those extra tens of thousands > of dollars for RAC; won't the extra licensing and maintenance costs of RAC > come out about the same as those three servers your eliminating? > > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or > attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not > consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions > and other information in this message that do not relate to the official > business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed > by it. > -- Cheers, -- Mark Brinsmead Senior DBA, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs