Are you sure on that price? My understanding was that the price was approximately 47,5000 per processor, not per core. For their licensing support, a core equals .5 of a processor, so, if you have a single CPU that has dual-core, then you have 1 Processor to license. If your CPU is one of the new quad cores, that one CPU equals 2 Processor licenses. That does not count support after the first year, which normally runs you about 20% of the license cost. But, as was stated in the first reply, look for a reseller, for your discount. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bao jiejie Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:37 AM To: Oracle-L Group Subject: about oracle database's price Dear list, I am just wondering if you can get a better price from oracle sales than oracle online shop ? 39K per core for enterprise edition with almost 10K partition per core is so expensive !!! plus first year support fee and tax, we are not ready to afford it :( Any idea "normal price" for your CPU per core for enterprise edition ? is that possible to low it down to 10-15K per core ? Thanks a lot. -- ("'-''-/").___..--''"'-._ '7_ 7 ) '_. ( ).'-.__.') (_Y_.) ._ ) '._ '. ''-..-' _.'--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' Best regards, Yours sincerely House baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx