Re: pricing
- From: Steve Karam <oraclealchemist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:02:05 -0500
Brian,
I wrote an article on this a while back. Hopefully it can help:
http://www.oraclealchemist.com/news/a-few-words-on-oracle-licenses/
In your case, 2 CPU sockets w/ 2 cores each = 4 cores. For enterprise edition,
you then multiply by their modifier. For Intel chips it's 0.5 so that would be
2 EE processor licenses.
For standard edition you license by the socket. So it would be 2 SE processor
licenses.
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Zelli, Brian <Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok, it seems that the processor licensing looks to be the way to go but how
> do you figure that out? I’m looking at all these charts and none of it is
> making any sense. They talk processors, and we talk cores and cpus. What’s
> what? From my unix guy he says 2 cpus and 2 cores. So I multiplied to 4.
> How does that convert to processors?
>
>
> Brian
>
>
> From: MARK BRINSMEAD [mailto:mark.brinsmead@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 1:47 PM
> To: Zelli, Brian
> Cc: oracle-l (oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Subject: Re: pricing
>
> Hold on there. Its nowhere near that easy.
>
> There is a per-processor MINIMUM for named-user-plus licensing. For EE
> products, the minimum is 25 named users per processor, which works out in
> most cases to 50% the price of CPU licenses. That -- of course -- is a
> minimum. There is no maximum.
>
> Further, the rules for who/what constitutes a "named user" are less than
> simple. Under Oracle's rules, when you use "multiplexing" devices (e.g., TP
> monitors, like "Tuxedo", or web-based application servers) you must count the
> users on the outside of the multiplexing device.
>
> In an extreme case, this means that if you have applications running on an
> internet-accessible web server that accesses your database, you could be
> required to license about seven billion named users, even though the web
> server has only a single database connection and uses only a single database
> account.
>
> When licensing EE products, I think it may be wiser to purchase CPU licenses
> rather than named-user licenses. It is far easier to demonstrate compliance
> with CPU licenses, and the upside to named users (a maximum 50% cost saving)
> is often outweighed by the potential downside (basically unlimited license
> liability).
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Zelli, Brian <Brian.Zelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Ok, it has been a while since I had to price out the oracle licensing. When
> I go the oracle website, it shows me two options, Processor or Named User.
> Is that still correct? We were on Named User and probably wish to stay on
> that. So it says that Named User is $950 per user. So none of the cpu,
> cores or other internals matter? Just the $950 times the quantity will be my
> price?
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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