I agree with Michael,
A move to Oracle Standard One, or Standard 2, can save a lot of money, and
be full supported by Oracle.
The work in moving to another vendor, is normally greatly underestimated.
I have moved many databases to Oracle Standard edition, its a fantastic
product for the money.
Tom
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Michael Cunningham <
napacunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've had to cut costs in the past and since we were not using features
only available in Enterprise Edition we were able to switch all DEV/QA/User
Acceptance, etc to Standard Edition One. At the time it was $5,000 per
socket (list price) and saved us a lot of money. In our case we never found
a situation where we had problems in non Enterprise Edition databases.
The worst problem was that new servers could not be purchased with the
same number of cores we had on the old boxes, so we had to juggle things
around to avoid breaking the licensing.
Michael
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Jack van Zanen <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I would rather suggest to move to a cheaper db platform than to
suggest dropping support for any current one.
Investigate SQL Server, postgress, mysql and whatever other flavour has
your fancy
If you drop support and something does happen that requires oracle
support they can and most likely will charge you whatever you saved over
the time you did not have support.
They will get their money back I am sure, or else we would all be telling
our boss to ditch support until we need it
Jack van Zanen
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:03 AM, John Piwowar <jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I concur with Rich on the patching angle. FWIW, I usually hear about
3rd-party support in the context of older "legacy" systems where the
amount of patching and updates required is minimal. Not a licensing
expert, but I'd expect things to get dicey really fast in an
current-release environment where there's no patch access. You'd also
be stuck hoping that Oracle doesn't take your third party support
entity to court (e.g. in Rimini's case:
http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applications/rimini-street-oracle-spar-over-lawsuit-outcome/d/d-id/1322845
;-)
Dropping maintenance and support seems like a huge pile of risk to
take on for production systems running a recent release....
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Rich J
<rjoralist3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2016/01/22 08:30, Sherrie Kubis wrote:
While I haven't seriously looked at third-party support, the onecritical
piece that seems to be missing is access to software patches. Thosehave
unfortunately proven to be crucial for me to be able to keep ourProduction
DBs afloat, and I don't even generally apply CPUs/PSUs. It alsoimpacts
"free" Oracle software like EM12c, where the upgrade to 12.1.0.5requires
patch 11061801.--
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Michael Cunningham
