There's a company that specializes in helping companies reduce Oracle license costs. They can get paid an up front fee or a percentage of the savings etc. I met them at 2006 OOW, but they've changed name since then and I can't remember their name for the life of me. Finn On 2/19/08, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Did you consider SE for this. I've just gone to the Oracle store (and > found it moved and is on apps 12!) > > dual node rac install on SE = £33k. > dual node rac install on EE = £119k. > > Neither of these quotes have any discount. If you can live without EE and > don't mind paying 25% of the price this might work for you. To be honest > given that you could be running SE on quad-core chips for the same price EE > takes an awful lot of selling to me for most applications these days. > > Niall > > > On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > To get an idea of how much it would cost to license a point of sale > > database on Oracle and commodity hardware/software, we requested a quote for > > a 2-node RAC on Dell 2950's 2 Dual core's per server. Quote was $306k. > > Business choked and said to look for an alternative solution. It's hard to > > argue with them with costs like that. We're currently having to house about > > 30 db's on each of the 3 production servers we have because of the licensing > > costs. Tunning, planning downtime is a true nightmare not to mention we > > cannot gurantee SLA's are met because of the influences of these other > > databases. I'd like to silo each database, but that's out of the question > > with that kind of cost. How are others dealing with the high cost of > > Oracle? > > > > > > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.orawin.info