Thank you very much for all the responses. Some of the applications we have doesn't really have the budget to purchase EE RAC, however SE-RAC will give us the flexibility to handle things more available during the normal business hours. -Upendra > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:45:01 +0300 > Subject: Re: Standard Edition RAC - CPU core limit? > From: gints.plivna@xxxxxxxxx > To: zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx > CC: nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Yes, we have. > OK to be more precise we have created projects and apps (as we are a > software company) and customer uses this configuration. As our > customers mostly are our local organizations and also governmental > organizations they have quite strict requirements for uptime for > business hours, but actually at nights almost nobody works with these > apps. Also data volumes are not thaaaat big, i.e. in magnitudes of > (tens or hundreds) GB, not TB. So night windows are enough in case of > necessity. And the main factor here is price - if you compare > - 70K for 4 proc (say 4 cores) SE (RAC included) with > - 4 proc * 4 cores * 0.5 (let's say the average factor) * 47 500 = > 380K EE (without RAC) and > - the same math for EE RAC 4 * 4 * 0.5 * 23 000 = 184 K EE RAC > > So 70K vs 564K $. OK there are discounts and probably they can use > less cores but the difference is too big. Most of the time both > customer and we can agree that we'd rather improve functionality of > our app than spend half a million for licences :) > > Gints Plivna > http://www.gplivna.eu > > 2011/4/4 Zhu,Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx>: > > If i remember correctly, standard edition has severe limitation like no > > online index creation, such kind of very basic requirement; > > So if a system needs RAC kind of avalibility, wondering how can it fit into > > standard edition? anyone has such kind of standard edition rac running? > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > >