RE: pricing
- From: "Zelli, Brian" <Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: MARK BRINSMEAD <mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:52:22 +0000
Ok, it seems that the processor licensing looks to be the way to go but how do
you figure that out? I’m looking at all these charts and none of it is making
any sense. They talk processors, and we talk cores and cpus. What’s what?
From my unix guy he says 2 cpus and 2 cores. So I multiplied to 4. How does
that convert to processors?
Brian
From: MARK BRINSMEAD [mailto:mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 1:47 PM
To: Zelli, Brian
Cc: oracle-l (oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Re: pricing
Hold on there. Its nowhere near that easy.
There is a per-processor MINIMUM for named-user-plus licensing. For EE
products, the minimum is 25 named users per processor, which works out in most
cases to 50% the price of CPU licenses. That -- of course -- is a minimum.
There is no maximum.
Further, the rules for who/what constitutes a "named user" are less than
simple. Under Oracle's rules, when you use "multiplexing" devices (e.g., TP
monitors, like "Tuxedo", or web-based application servers) you must count the
users on the outside of the multiplexing device.
In an extreme case, this means that if you have applications running on an
internet-accessible web server that accesses your database, you could be
required to license about seven billion named users, even though the web server
has only a single database connection and uses only a single database account.
When licensing EE products, I think it may be wiser to purchase CPU licenses
rather than named-user licenses. It is far easier to demonstrate compliance
with CPU licenses, and the upside to named users (a maximum 50% cost saving) is
often outweighed by the potential downside (basically unlimited license
liability).
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Zelli, Brian
<Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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
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