Is the extra cost option for using PDBs at all or is it for having more than one PDB? -Jeremy -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider Sent from my iPhone > 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. > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info