My experience; Oracle wants and gets your $$, fair enough. 1) If you have lightly used low cpu/core app use per cpu else per user. Do the math once above decision is made and iterate from # 1) above! Paresh On Monday, November 24, 2014, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Check the Software Investment Guide at > http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/index.html for details. > > Named User attached to a specific person (or autonomous device) and > actually can cross database instances on the machine(s). However, there > is usually a minimum number of NUP licenses needed for a specific socket or > core count. Unfortunately, the core count is not simply a count of the > cores ... this and the minimums are 'explained' in > http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing-070584.pdf > > Final pricing and licensing, of course, needs to come from Oracle. "I > read it on the internet" is not accepted by most judges in a contract > dispute. > > /Hans > > On 24/11/2014 7:51 AM, Zelli, Brian wrote: > > Ok, it has been a while since I had to price out the oracle licensing. > When I go the oracle website, it shows me two options, Processor or Named > User. Is that still correct? We were on Named User and probably wish to > stay on that. So it says that Named User is $950 per user. So none of > the cpu, cores or other internals matter? Just the $950 times the quantity > will be my price? > > > > > > Brian > > > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or > agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended > recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. > > > -- Thanks Paresh Yadav 416-688-1003