I have clients who have operated for years without a support agreement (and without patching). But I would not voluntarily choose this myself, though. I am curious, would this still be acceptable to Oracle? I have always assumed that you are only allowed to play with it, for testing and learning. The moment you attach a business around it, you have to part with money, even if you do not need patching and support. Please do not infer that I am putting you in a tight corner. I have thought twice before sending this, but concluded you would be okay since you are the one who brought it up in the first place. Bill -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of Veres Lajos Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:41 AM To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: oracle EE pricing Hi, I dont understand something about pricing. This page says: https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:product:86489432026629::NO:RP,3:P3_LPI,P3_PROD_HIER_ID:4509382199341805719938,4509958287721805720011 Perpetual license/cpu: 47,500$, plus yearly support: 10,450$ 1 year license/cpu: 9,500$ It looks like to me it is cheaper to re-buy a yearly license in every year, than the yearly support cost of a perpetual license. (And there is lot more difference in the first year...) I guess I am missing something, but I cant find it. Can you enlighten me? Thanks in advance. -- Veres Lajos vlajos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:vlajos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> +36 20 438 5909 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- Cheers, -- Mark Brinsmead Senior DBA, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l