Re: Licensing costs
- From: "Allan Nelson" <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:50:13 -0600
Yeah, we quoted a 3 node RAC with the same Dell boxes you are looking at and
with partitioning and some management packs for Grid Control, list was about
$874,000.00. I'm pretty sure that Oracle's "official" position is that you
should not be running their software on commodity hardware at least that's
the message that comes with the pricing irrespective of what their marketing
position is.
As far as how we deal with it, our thinking to this point is to expand our
existing HP architecture and use a previous negotiated agreement with Oracle
to keep the costs down.
With the number of cores going to 4 in the Dell line and later to 8 as Intel
releases those chips it seems the Oracle will price themselves right out of
that market.
Allan
On Feb 19, 2008 7:58 AM, 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?
>
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