Re: DB12c in Production?

  • From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 07:04:09 -0500

Is the extra cost option for using PDBs at all or is it for having more than 
one PDB?

-Jeremy

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> On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:20 AM, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> Three things come to mind
>> 
>> 1) The non-multi-tenant architecture is known as the 'Pre-12c' architecture. 
>>  In other words, in the future, we will have no choice.
> 
> I agree that the wording and marketing tends to point in that direction. 
> However I consider it unlikely that the old architecture will disappear any 
> time soon for one major reason. Multi-tenant has been introduced as an extra 
> cost option, and its an option I think a reasonable number of customers, but 
> by no means all will pay for. A future decision for Oracle to drop support 
> for the option would have to do one or more of the below (or some other smart 
> alternative). 
> 
> make multi-tenant part of the base license killing a revenue stream. 
> make existing customers who don't see value in multi-tenant pay for it 
> (reducing a revenue stream). 
> make it cost neutral or advantageous to move to multi-tenant (perhaps by 
> playing with overall discount rates for those who purchase it)  
> allow multi-tenant for SE customers
> I suspect that any of the above will be difficult and have unexpected side 
> effects. 
> 
> 
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> Niall Litchfield
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