Srinivas, Explore the options available on the Oracle web site about pricing. You can get a "named users" license that has a minimum of 10 users at about $800 each for the Enterprise edition. Ron >>> Srinivas.Kommareddy@xxxxxxxxxx 04/01/2004 10:52:35 AM >>> Hi Juan, Thanks for responding. I think the licensing is based on no. of CPUs. (is there anything like licensing based on no. of users ? if yes, which is the best choice ?) Do we have the option of migrating from standard to enterprise edition in future (if needed )? Thanks, Srinivas -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:38 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: standard edition vs enterprise edition I use standard edition, the reason to use enterprise is high load of data, even if there are ten users. If you are going to have tables about 10,000,000 records, standard is OK, but if you are going to query permamently tables about 100,000,000 or more then you could think in enterprise, it has features advanced to optimized high data loads. Now if the price is almost the same for you (if you can affor ten licenses in enterterprise edition) I would suggest to use that, becaues you will have several features enabled, like partitioning, security, etc.. There is a paper at Oracle comparing features. The configuration is enough, but all depends in the amount of data you will use. Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco OCP Database 9.2 Standard Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------